GIFX,  OF 


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"Out  of  monuments,  names,  words,  proverbs, 
traditions,  private  records  and  evidences,  frag- 
ments of  stories,  passages  of  books,  and  the  like, 
we  do  save  and  recover  somewhat  from  the  del- 
uge of  time." 

— Bacon. 

"Striving  so  to  live  that  our  sons  and  our 
sons'  sons,  for  ages  to  comie,  might  still  lead 
their  children  reverently  to  the  doors  out  of 
which  we  had  been  carried  to  the  grave,  say- 
ing, 'Look,  this  was  his  house,  this  was  his  cham- 
ber.'" 

— RUSKIN. 

"Breed   is   stronger  than   pasture." 

— George  Elliott. 


PREFACE 


This  work  has  extended  over  a  period  of  nine  years,  but  on  account  of  pro- 
fessional and  other  duties  has  been  frequently  interrupted.  The  interest  mani- 
fested by  various  members  of  the  family  has  encouraged  the  writer  to  publish 
the  results  of  his  search  for  records  which  have  been  gathered  from  various 
sources;  the  public  records  consisting  of  town,  church,  cemetery,  probate,  land 
and  court  records;  the  private  records  consisting  principally  of  the  Bible  rec- 
ords which  were  kept  by  nearly  all  New-England  families.  Family  tradition, 
especially  as  it  refers  to  ancestors  four  or  more  generations  removed  from  the 
present,  has  been  found  unreliable,  usually  distorted  and  exaggerated,  but  fre- 
quently having  some  fact  as  its  basis.  The  writer  has  been  careful  to  insert  no 
record  and  to  make  no  positive  statement  if  there  could  be  any  reasonable  doubt  of 
its  authenticity.  To  secure  the  public  records,  especially  the  Boston  data,  a  part 
of  which  have  not  as  yet  been  published,  has  necessitated  a  considerable  finan- 
cial outlay,  a  large  part  of  the  funds  being  donated  by  the  late  Webster  C.  Jip- 
son,  whose  substantial  aid  is  hereby  thankfully  acknowledged. 

It  is  manifestly  impracticable  to  name  each  member  of  the  family  who  has 
assisted  in  gathering  data,  but  to  all  of  them  the  writer  expresses  his  gratitude. 
The  late  George  E.  Jepson,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  who  contributed  a  portion  of  the 
introduction,  gave  the  writer  much  encouragement  and  many  valuable  sugges- 
tions. 

The  plan  of  this  work  is  substantially  the  one  adopted  by  the  New  England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society.  Each  head  of  a  family  is  first  described  and  the 
facts  concerning  his  birth,  death,  marriage  and  wife's  birth  and  death,  where 
obtainable,  are  given;  also  the  place  of  residence,  occupation  and  other  facts 
concerning  both. 

Then  the  children  are  taken  up,  in  the  order  of  their  births  and  to  each  one 
is  assigned  a  Roman  numeral,  as  i,  ii,  iii,  etc.  The  daughters,  unmarried  sons 
and  married  sons  of  whom  a  limited  amount  of  information  is  obtainable  are 
then  disposed  of,  including  the  descendants  of  the  daughters  down  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  In  addition  to  the  Roman  numeral,  each  son  who  became  the  head  of 
a  family  and  carried  on  the  line  is  given  a  number  in  large  type  and  described 
later  in  the  book. 

It  is  believed  that  the  reader  will  have  no  difficulty  in  understanding  this 
method,  especially  if  he  will  carefully  read  the  table  of  contents. 

As  to  the  scope  of  this  work:  the  writer  has  attempted  to  secure  records  of 
all  the  descendants  especially  along  male  lines  of  John  Jepson  of  Boston, 
through  his  son,  John,  Jr.,  whose  two  sons,  William  and  Micah,  so  far  as  known, 
were  the  forebears  of  all  the  present  living  members  of  the  family. 

William's  son  John,  was  the  father  of  John,  of  Dover,  Mass.;  Benjamin  of 
S.  Carolina  and  Cieorgia;  Samuel,  who  remained  in  Boston  but  whose  records 
have  not  been  found,  and  Lemuel  C".  of  S.  Carolina,  Tennessee,  and  Franklin, 
Kentuckv.     Samuel,  another  son  of  William  was  the  ancestor  of  thai  branch  of 


NORTON    W.    JIPSON,    M.    D. 


A  History  CS,  Genealogy 

OF  THE  DESCENDENTS 

OF 

JOHN  JEPSON 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  BOSTON,  MASS. 

THROUGH    HIS    SON    JOHN'S    TWO 
SON'S  WILLIAM  AND  MICAH 

1610-1917 


NORTON  W.  JIPSON,  M.  D. 

FELLOW     OF     THE     AMERICAN 
MEDICAL   ASSOCIATION,    ETC. 


THE  GAZETTE  PRESS 
JANESVILLE,  WIS. 


COPYRIGHT,  1917 
BY  N.  W.  JIPSON 


TO  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  JEPSON 
FAMILY,  WHOSE  CHEERFUL  ASSIST- 
ANCE AND  ENCOURAGEMENT  HAVE 
SERVED  TO  LIGHTEN  A  HEAVY  TASK, 
THIS  BOOK  IS  DEDICATED  WITH 
KIND  REGARDS   BY  THE  AUTHOR. 


"Out  of  monuments,  names,  words,  proverbs, 
traditions,  private  records  and  evidences,  frag- 
ments of  stories,  passages  of  books,  and  the  like, 
we  do  save  and  recover  somewhat  from  the  del- 
uge of  time." 

— Bacon. 

"Striving  so  to  live  that  our  sons  and  our 
sons'  sons,  for  ages  to  come,  might  still  lead 
their  children  reverently  to  the  doors  out  of 
which  we  had  been  carried  to  the  grave,  say- 
ing, 'Look,  this  was  his  house,  this  was  his  cham- 
ber.'" 

— RUSKIN. 

"Breed   is  stronger  than   pasture." 

— George  Elliott. 


PREFACE 


This  work  has  extended  over  a  period  of  nine  years,  but  on  account  of  pro- 
fessional and  other  duties  has  been  frequently  interrupted.  The  interest  mani- 
fested by  various  members  of  the  family  has  encouraged  the  writer  to  publish 
the  results  of  his  search  for  records  which  have  been  gathered  from  various 
sources;  the  public  records  consisting  of  town,  church,  cemetery,  probate,  land 
and  court  records;  the  private  records  consisting  principally  of  the  Bible  rec- 
ords which  were  kept  by  nearly  all  New-England  families.  Family  tradition, 
especially  as  it  refers  to  ancestors  four  or  more  generations  removed  from  the 
present,  has  been  found  unreliable,  usually  distorted  and  exaggerated,  but  fre- 
quently having  some  fact  as  its  basis.  The  writer  has  been  careful  to  insert  no 
record  and  to  make  no  positive  statement  if  there  could  be  any  reasonable  doubt  of 
its  authenticitv.  To  secure  the  public  records,  especially  the  Boston  data,  a  part 
of  which  have  not  as  yet  been  published,  has  necessitated  a  considerable  finan- 
cial outlay,  a  large  part  of  the  funds  being  donated  by  the  late  Webster  C.  Jip- 
son,  whose  substantial  aid  is  hereby  thankfully  acknowledged. 

It  is  manifestly  impracticable  to  name  each  member  of  the  family  who  has 
assisted  in  gathering  data,  but  to  all  of  them  the  writer  expresses  his  gratitude. 
The  late  George  E.  Jepson,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  who  contributed  a  portion  of  the 
introduction,  gave  the  writer  much  encouragement  and  many  valuable  sugges- 
tions. 

The  plan  of  this  work  is  substantially  the  one  adopted  by  the  New  England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society.  Each  head  of  a  family  is  first  described  and  the 
facts  concerning  his  birth,  death,  marriage  and  wife's  birth  and  death,  where 
obtainable,  are  given;  also  the  place  of  residence,  occupation  and  other  facts 
concerning  both. 

Then  the  children  are  taken  up,  in  the  order  of  their  births  and  to  each  one 
is  assigned  a  Roman  numeral,  as  i,  ii,  iii,  etc.  The  daughters,  unmarried  sons 
and  married  sons  of  whom  a  limited  amount  of  information  is  obtainable  are 
then  disposed  of,  including  the  descendants  of  the  daughters  down  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  In  addition  to  the  Roman  numeral,  each  son  who  became  the  head  of 
a  family  and  carried  on  the  line  is  given  a  number  in  large  type  and  described 
later  in  the  book. 

It  is  believed  that  the  reader  will  have  no  difhculty  in  understanding  this 
method,  especially  if  he  will  carefully  read  the  table  of  contents. 

As  to  the  scope  of  this  work:  the  writer  has  attempted  to  secure  records  of 
all  the  descendants  especially  along  male  lines  of  John  Jepson  of  Boston, 
through  his  son,  John,  Jr.,  whose  two  sons,  William  and  Micah,  so  far  as  known, 
were  the  forebears  of  all  the  present  living  members  of  the  family. 

William's  son  John,  was  the  father  of  John,  of  Dover,  Mass.;  Benjamin  of 
S.  Carolina  and  Georgia;  Samuel,  who  remained  in  Boston  but  whose  records 
have  not  been  found,  and  Lemuel  C.  of  S.  Carolina,  Tennessee,  and  Franklin, 
Kentuckv.     Samuel,  another  son  of  William  was  the  ancestor  of  that  branch  of 


tlie  family  still  living  in  the  vicinity  of  Boston.  WiUiani's  son  Henry  and  his 
descendants  lived  mostly  in  New  London,  Conn,  and  no  recent  information  of 
them  can  be  obtained.  Micah  removed  to  Gloshen,  Mass.;  and  his  sons  John  and 
Joseph  lived  in  Goshen  until  their  deaths,  and  his  sons  David  and  Samuel  re- 
moved to  Pownal,  Vt. 

In  compiling  this  work  every  effort  has  been  put  forth  to  avoid  errors  and 
the  proofs  have  been  carefully  corrected;  if  in  spite  of  this  care,  some  mistakes 
have  crept  in,  the  writer  feels  that  they  will  not  materially  detract  from  the 
reader's  interest  in  the  work. 

With  these  explanatory  remarks,  the  book  is  sent  forth,  with  the  hope  that 

it  will  be  read  with  pleasure  by  the  members  of  the  family. 

N.  W.  JIPSON. 
Chicago,  Illinois, 

Sept.  24,  1917. 


CONTENTS 

INTRODUCTION  :  p.  13.  Origin  of  the  name  Jepson ;  Name 
as  found  in  old  Enelish  records.  The  Jephsons  of  England  and  Ireland, 
Jepsons  of  Lincolnshire,  Scotch-Irish  Jepsons  who  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica, American  Jepsons  from  Darwin,  Lincolnshire, — from  Yorkshire; 
Colonial  Jepson  Families  of  Connecticut,  of  Rhode  Island,  Nottingham 
Jepsons,  Dr.  Henry  Jephson  of  Leamington,  England,  Pilgrim  Jepsons 
of  Amsterdam  and  LeyAiUv  Jepsons  of  Boston.  The  Boston  of  our  An- 
cestors, by  Geo.  E.  Jepson,  p.  16,  Armorial  Bearings,  p.  23. 

JEPSON  HEADS  OF  FAMILIES 

(Note;  Daughters,  unmarried  sons  and  sons  who  married,  but  of  whose 
children  little  can  be  learned,  are  not  named  in  the  table  of  contents.  See 
index.) 

1.  JOHN  JEPSON   OF   BOSTON .' p.  25 

2.     John-    Jr -. P-  26 

2.     Thomas     P-  27 

2.  JOHN  JEPSON,  JR.,  OF  BOSTON p.  26 

4.  WlLU.\M    P-  27 

5.  Benjamin    p.  28 

6.  MlCAH    p.  28 

3.  THOMAS  OF  BOSTON  p.  27 

4.  WILLIAM  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON. p.  27 

7.  John     p.  29 

8.  Benjamin     p.  30 

9.  Samuel    p.  30 

10.  Henry    p.  30 

3.     BENJAMIN  JEPSON  p.  28 

6.  MICAH   JEPSON  OF  HINGAM  AND  GOSHEN, 

MASSACHUSETTS  p.  28 

11.  John    p.  31 

12.  Joseph    p.  31 

13.  David     p.  32 

14.  Samuel    p.  33 

7.  JOHN  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON p.  29 

15.  John     p.  33 

16.  I.E.viuEi.,    C.     (Jesse)     p.  34 

17.  Benjamin    p.  37 

8.  BENJAMIN  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON  p.  30 

9.  SAMUEL  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON p.  30 

18.  Samuel    p.  38 

19.  William    p.  39 


10.  HENRY  JEPSON    OF   BOSTON p.  30 

20.  Henrv    p.  39 

11.  JOHN  JEPSON  OF  GOSHEN,  MASS p.  31 

21.  Forrest    .'..p.  40 

22.  Cyral    p.  41 

12.  JOSEPH  JEPSON  OF  GOSHEN,  MASS p.  31 

23.  Webster    p.  43 

24.  Joseph,   Jr    p.  44 

13.  DAVID  JEPSON  OF  GOSHEN  AND  POWNAL, 

VT : 


Harvey p.  45 

David,  Jr p.  46 

James     p.  48 

Benjamin     p.  49 

Lorenzo    Dow p.  49 


.p.   32 


14.  SAMUEL  JEPSON  OF  GOSHEN  AND  POWNAL, 

VT p.  33 

30.  Eli    p.  50 

31.  Luther    p.  51 

32.  Sale.m    p.  54 

33.  Joel    p.  54 

34.  Thomas     p.  56 

15.  JOHN  JEPSON  OF  DOVER,  MASS p.  33 

35.  John     p.  57 

16.  LEMUEL  C.  (JESSE)  JEPSON p.  34 

"The  Jepsons  of  the  Border  States.'' 

36.  Willis     l.p.  57 

37.  Benjamin p.  59 

38.  Lemuel    p.  62 

17.  BENJAIVHN  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON,  S.  CAROLINA 

AND  GEORGIA   p.  37 

39.  Le.muel    p.  63 

18.  SAMUEL  JEPSON  OF  NEWTON,  MASS p.  38 

19.  WILLIAM  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON  p.  39 

40.  William    p.  64 

41.  Samuel    p.  64 

42.  Joseph  B p.  64 

20.  HENRY  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON  AND  NEW  LON- 

DON, CONN p.  39 

21.  FORREST  JEPSON  OF  ASHFIELD,  MASS p.  40 

43.  Orren    p.  65 

44.  George  R p.  65 

22.  CYRAL  JIPSON  OF  GOSHEN,  MASS.  AND  WIN- 

FIELD,  N.  Y -p.  41 

45.  Seth    Sears    p.  65 

46.  Samuel  Fayette  p.  66 


23.  WEBSTER  JIPSON  OF  GOSHEN  AND  MADISON 

CO.,  N.  Y P-  -+3 

47.  Almon     P-  *7 

48.  Manus     P-  *7 

49.  Orrin    Webster    P-  68 

50.  Henry     P-  70 

24.  JOSEPH  JEPSON,  JR.,  OF  GOSHEN,  MASS p.  44 

25.  HARVEY  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT p.  45 

51.  George    VV P-  71 

52.  Myron     P-  72 

53.  Harvey     P-  72 

54.  John     '■ P-  72 

55.  Joel    P-  72 

26.  DAVID  JEPSON,  JR.,  OF  POWNAL,  VT p.  46 

56.  John   Bates    p.  72 

57.  Andrew     P-  73 

27     JAMES  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL  AND  BENINGTON. 

VT p.  48 

58.  Henry    • p.  74 

59.  George     p.  74 

60.  Reuben  Wright  p.  74 

28.  BENJAMIN  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT p.  49 

61.  Enos    Palmer    p.  75 

62.  Lewis    R p.  75 

29.  LORENZO  DOW  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT p.  49 

63.  Lorenzo  Dow,  Jr p.  75 

30.  ELI  JEPSON  OF  BRIDGEPORT,  N.  Y p.  50 

64.  Henry    Hudson    p.  76 

65.  Ch.as.    Burrington     p.  76 

66.  Jefferson   Hall   p.  76 

67.  John     p.  76 

31.  LUTHER  JEPSON  OF  HAMMOND,  N.  Y p.  51 

68.  Alfred   King   p.  77 

32.  SALEM  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT.  AND  HART- 

FORD,   CONN p.  54 

33.  JOEL  JEPSON  OF  ROSSIE,  N.  Y p.  54 

69.  Warren     p.  78 

70.  .Anson p.  78 

71.  George     p.  78 

34.  THOMAS  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT.  AND  WEB- 

STER, MASS p.  56 

72.  Vernon,    M p.  79 

35.  JOHN  JEPSON,  JR.,  OF  DOVER  AND  NORFOLK, 

MASS p.  57 

36.  WILLIS  TEPSON  OF  FRANKLIN,  KY.  AND  JACK- 

SON  CO.,  MO p.  57 

73.  Kphraigm    M p.  80 

74.  William    Le.m.mon    p.  80 


37.  BENIJAMIN  JEPSON  OF  FRANKLIN,  KY p.  59 

75.  Simpson  M p.  82 

76.  Cass.^nder    L p.  83 

77.  Jesse p.  84 

78.  Benjamin    p.  85 

38.  LEMUEL  JEPSON  OF  SIMPSON  CO.,   KY.,  AND 

CALIFORNIA  p.  62 

39.  LEMUEL  JEPSON  OF  COLUMBUS  AND  ATLANTA, 

GEORGIA   p.  63 

40.  WILLIAM  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON  p.  64 

79.  George   Edwin     p.  85 

41.  SAMUEL  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON p.  64 

80.  Samuel  Greenwood    p.  86 

81.  Charles   E p.  86 

42.  JOSEPH  BUCKMINSTER  JEPSON  OF  BOSTON....p.  64 

43.  ORREN  JEPSON  OF  ASHFIELD  AND  BELCHER- 

TOWN.   MASS p.  65 

82.  Henry    M p.  87 

44.  GEORGE  R.  JEPSON  p.  65 

45.  SETH  SEARS  JIPSON  p.  65 

83.  William    p.  87 

46.  SAMUEL  FAYETTE  JIPSON   p.  66 

84.  Norman  Josiah  p.  88 

85.  Norton    William     p.  88 

47.  ALMON   JIPSON    p.  67 

48.  MANUS  JIPSON  -p.  67 

49.  ORRIN  WEBSTER  JIPSON  p.  68 

50.  GEORGE   JEPSON   p.  70 

5L  GEORGE  JEPSON   p.  71 

86.  George    F p.  88 

87.  La    F.mette    p.  89 

52.  MYRON  JEPSON   p.  72 

53.  HARVEY  JEPSON,  JR p.  72 

54.  JOHN  JEPSON  OF  POWNAL,  VT p.  72 

55.  JOEL  JEPSON  p.  72 

56.  JAMES  BATES  JEPSON  p.  72 

88.  Edson    a p.  89 

89.  Merton    K p.  90 

57.  ANDREW  J.  JEPSON  , p.  73 


58.  HENRY   JEPSON    P-  74 

59.  GEORGE  JEPSON    P-  74 

60.  REUBEN  WRIGHT  JEPSON  p.  74 

61.  ENOS  PALMER  JEPSON p.  75 

62.  LEWIS  R.  JEPSON  P-  75 

63.  LORENZO  DOW  JEPSON,  JR p.  75 

64.  HENRY  HUDSON  JEPSON   p.  76 

65.  CHARLES  BURRINGTON  JEPSON  p.  76 

66.  JEFFERSON  HALL  JEPSON  - p.  76 

67.  JOHN   JEPSON   P-  76 

90.  Lowell   Ellsworth    P-  90 

91.  Frank    Newton    p.  91 

92.  John  Harry  P-  91 

68.  ALFRED  KING  JEPSON  p.  77 

69.  WARREN  JEPSON  p.  78 

70.  ANSON  JEPSON  p.  78 

7L  GEORGE  JEPSON   p.  78 

72.  VERNON   M.  JEPSON   '. p.  79 

73.  EPHRAIGM  JEPSON    p.  80 

74.  WILLIAM  LEMMON  JEPSON  , '. p.  80 

75.  SIMPSON  JEPSON  p.  82 

76.  CASSANDER  JEPSON  p.  83 

77.  DR.  JESSE  JEPSON p.  84 

78.  BENJAMIN    W.   JEPSON    p.  85 

79.  GEORGE  EDWIN  JEPSON   p.  85 

93.  William    Austin    p.  92 

80.  SAMUEL  GREENWOOD  JEPSON  p.  86 

8L     CHARLES  EDWIN  JEPSON  p.  86 

82.  HENRY   M.  JEPSON   . p.  87 

83.  WILLIA.M  S.  JU'SON  p.  87 

84.  NORMAN  JOSIAH  JIPSON  p.' 88 

94.  Albert  M.   p.  92 

95.  Harry p.  92 

85.  NORTON  WILLIAM  JIPSON  p.  88 


86.  GEORGE  FRANK  JEPSON  p 

87.  LA  FAYETTE  JEPSON  p 

88.  EDSON  A.  JEPSON  p 

89.  MERTON  K.  JEPSON  p 

90.  LOWELL  ELLSWORTH  JEPSON   p 

91.  FRANK   NEWTON   JEPSON   p 

92.  JOHN  HARRY  JEPSON  p 

93.  WILLIAM  AUSTIN  JEPSON  p 

94.  ALBERT   M.  JIPSON   p 

95.  HARRY  JIPSON   p 

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INTRODUCTION 


The  English  name  Jepson,  in  common  with  Jcphson,  Jefferson, 
Jeffers,  Jeffery,  and  so  forth,  is  derived  from  the  Teutonic  name  Geof- 
frey, which,  by  many  authors,  is  said  to  be  derived  from  Godfrid  or 
Godfridus,  meaning  "God's  Peace."  The  name  is  a  patronymic  or  sur- 
name derived  from  a  given  name,  and  means  Jeff's  son.  While  proof 
is  wanting  that  all  names  ending  in  son  are  Scandinavian,  it  is  undoubt- 
edly true  that  the  prevalence  of  such  names  in  England  is  a  relic  of  the 
Danish  conquest.* 

Surnames  were  probably  formed  in  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  cen- 
turies, therefore  the  name  does  not  appear  in  the  Domesday  Book  of 
William  the  Conquerer,  neither  does  the  name  Godfrey,  or  Geoffrey. 
However,  during  the  Angevin  dynasty,  beginning  in  the  middle  of  the 
twelfth  century,  the  name  Geoffrey  became  quite  popular,  the  grand- 
father, brother  and  son  of  King  William  the  Second,  having  that  name. 
The  Danish  equivalent  of  Jepson  is  Jepsen  or  Jeppesen ;  while  the  Swed- 
ish is  Jepson  or  Jippson.  Various  transition  forms  and  modifications  of 
the  names,  such  as  Jeffreson,  Geffrayson  and  Jepheson  occur  in  English 
records  of  the  thirteenth  and  fourteenth  centuries.  The  names  Jepson 
and  Jephson  are  both  frequently  used  in  the  same  family,  the  latter  form 
being  considered  more  aristocratic.  Thus  in  Shaw's  "Knights  of  Eng- 
land" we  find  William  Jepson  of  Hampshire  created  a  Knight,  April  23, 
1603,  while  in  Berry's  "Hampshire  Genealogies"  the  same  man  is  re- 
ferred to  as  William  Jephson.  In  the  counties  of  Lincoln,  Nottingham 
and  York,  more  Jep5on  records  are  found  than  in  any  other  counties  of 
England.  After  the  Danish  invasion,  the  Danes  are  known  to  have 
made  permanent  settlements  in  the  above  named  counties  and  perhaps 
that  fact  furnishes  some  proof  of  the  Danish  origin  of  the  name. 

In  the  records  of  Nottinghamshire,  we  find  mention  of  the  name 
as  early  as  the  year  1475.  In  that  year,  one  Robert  Echard,  Rector  of 
East  Bridgeford,  mentioned  Richard  Jephson  as  one  of  the  beneficiaries 
of  his  will.  The  name  is  also  found  in  Chancery  proceedings  of  the 
time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  In  the  "Visitation  of  Nottingham"  in  the 
second  year  of  the  reign  of  King  James,  Johii  Jepson  is  spoken  of  as 
Alderman  of  East  Retford.  It  seems  probable  that  the  name  originated 
in  the  above  named  counties  as  it  is  today  more  common  in  that  local- 
ity and  that  several  families  of  that  name  moved  to  other  counties,  and 
also  to  Scotland  and  Ireland. 

In  1S34,  King  Henry  the  Eighth  granted,  by  patrnt,  the  manor  of 
Froyle  in  Hampshire  County,  to  William  Jephson,  Esq.,  and  Mary,  his 

•See  Ferguson's  "Teutonic  Name  System,"  Page  32. 


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wife.  His  great  grandson,  Sir  John  Jephson,  Knight  of  Froyle,  born  in 
1603,  was  Major  General  and  Privy  Councellor  in  Ireland,  and  elected 
M.  P.  for  Hampshire  in  1620.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Ncrreys.  By  this  marriage,  the  Mallow  Estate 
came  into  the  Jephson  family.  Sir  John  Jephson  had  four  sons;  the  eld- 
est, William  of  Mallow,  was  Major  General  and  envoy  to  Sweden  in 
1657,  and  his  second  son,  William,  was  private  secretary  to  King  Wil- 
liam. A  descendant  of  Willi?m  of  Mallow,  William,  Lieut.  Col.  in 
the  army,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Appey,  Sec'y.  and 
Judge  Advocate  of  His  Majesty's  forces  in  America,  and  by  her  had 
William  Henry  of  New  York,  "born  April,  1782;  died  March,  1867; 
who  married  Maria  AIsop,  daughter  of  James  Farquhar  and  had  two 
daughters,  one  of  whom,  Laura,  married  George  Elliot  Taylor,  son  of 
William  Ta\lor,  Chief  Justice  of  Jamaica,  and  by  him  had  William 
Jephson  Taylor,  born  1829;  died  1872. 

The  above  named  Jephsons,  descended  from  Sir  John,  were  through 
the  Norreys  family,  descended  from  King  Henry  the  Third  of  England 
and  Louis  the  Eighth  of  France.  Several  Jephsons  of  note,  among  them 
Robt.  Jephson,  born  in  Ireland  in  1736,  a  writer  of  dramas  and  poems 
of  considerable  merit,  and  the  Mountenay-Jephsons,  one  of  whom  ac- 
companied Stanley  on  his  search  for  Livingstone,  and  several  of  whom 
were  prominent  in  public  affairs,  have  made  the  name  quite  well  known 
in  Great  Britain.  A  Lincolnshire  family  of  considerable  prominence, 
was  founded  by  William  Jepson  of  Lincoln,  born  in  1668,  and  died  in 
1721.  His  son,  William,  was  connected  with  the  Cathedral  at  Lincoln 
and  was  buried  there  in  1792.  His  eldest  son,  Thomas,  was  Mayor  of 
Lincoln,  and  died  in  1825.  The  descendants  of  this  family  include  sev- 
eral Surgeons  and  prominent  Clergymen.  Henry  Jepson,  Alining  En- 
gineer of  Durham,  and  his  brother,  Edward,  M.  D. ;  William  F.,  Vicar 
in  London,  and  George,  Curare  in  London,  are  the  present  representa- 
tives of  the  family. 

Of  the  families  which  emigrated  to  America,  a  Scotch-Irish  family 
went  from  England  to  Scotland  and  from  there  to  Ulster,  in  the  North 
of  Ireland  in  1610.  William  Jepson,  a  member  of  this  family,  emigrated 
to  Massachusetts  in  1718;  moved  to  Kennebunk,  Maine,  in  1720  and 
presented  a  letter  from  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Magwater  in  1721. 
He  was  killed  by  Indians  in  1723.  Jedediah,  his  grandson,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Descendants  of  this  family  have  lived  at 
various  places  in  Maine  and  Massachusetts  and  a  genealogy'  is  given  in 
"Genealogical  and  Personal  Memoirs  Relating  to  Families  of  Boston 
and  Eastern  Mass."  by  William  R.  Cutter,  A.  M.  Probably  knowl- 
edge of  this  Jepson  family  gave  rise  to  the  erroneous  idea  that  our  fam- 
ily was  of  Scotch- Irish  origin. 

An  American  family,  descended  from  John  Jepson,  who  emigrated 
in  1827  from  Darwin,  Lincolnshire,  England,  is  represented  b^-  his  sons, 
N.  H.,  now  of  Washington,  Indiana;  George,  President  of  the  Bank  of 


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St.  Clairsville,  (">hi(),  niul  Ur.  Samuel  L.  of  Wheeling,  W.  Virginia, 
who  is  a  prominent  meniher  of  the  W.  \'a.  State  Medical  Society,  Sec'y. 
of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  Editor  of  the  State  Medical  Journal. 
The  abo\e  mentioned  John  Jepson  was  accompanied  to  this  country  by 
two  brothers,  Edward,  who  never  married,  and  Timothy,  who  had  two 
daughters  and  one  son,  John,  who  lived  in  Utica,  New  York. 

Another  American  family  is  descended  from  John  Jepson  who  emi- 
grated from  Sheffield,  "I'orkshire,  England,  accximpanied  by  his  son,  Ben- 
jamin in  1832,  and  settled  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  H.  B.  Jepson,  Pro- 
fessor of  Music  in  Yale  University,  is  a  member  of  this  family. 

Of  the  Colonial  Jepson  families,  besides  the  one  whose  genealogy  is 
given  in  this  volume.  Savage  mentions  the  family  of  Roger,  of  Saybrook 
and  Middletown,  Conn.  Samuel,  son  of  Roger,  was  a  deacon  in  the 
Middletown  Church,  and  died  in  1748.  A  John  Jepson  was  a  resident 
of  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  1716,  and  the  name  is  found  in  early  R.  I.  rec- 
ords, including  those  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  but  efforts  to  connect 
this  family  with  the  Boston  Jepsons,  have  been  futile. 

In  Nottingham  County,  England,  the  name  has  been  and  is  fairly 
common.  Hawthorne,  in  "Our  Old  Home,"  mentions  a  Dr.  Jephson 
of  Leamington,  England,  who  gave  a  botanical  garden  to  his  adopted 
town.  Dr.  Henry  Jephson,  of  Leamington,  was  born  near  Mansfield  in 
Nottingham  in  1798,  and  died  in  1878.  An  obituary'  in  the  British 
Medical  Journal  describes  him  as  one  of  the  most  remarkable  physicians 
of  the  centur\',  his  annual  income  for  years  having  exceeded  twenty  thou- 
sand pounds. 

The  Separatist  movement  from  the  Established  Church  of  England 
originated  in  Nottingham,  and  from  a  small  district  in  that  county,  the 
Pilgrims  took  their  departure  for  Holland.  According  to  Arber,  in  his 
"Story  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,"  the  Pilgrim  Movement  really  originated 
in  Babworth  and  vicinity.  The  parish  registers  of  several  towns  in  the 
neighborhood,  Skegby,  Mansfield,  Worksop  and  others,  contain  the 
name  of  Jepson,  and  there  were  several  Jepsons  in  Amsterdam  and  Ley- 
den.  William  Jepson  from  Worksop,  married  Rosamond  Horsfield  in 
Amsterdam,  April  28,  1609,  and  they  were  prominent  among  the  com- 
pany at  Leyden  until  their  deaths,  a  quarter  of  a  century  later  (J). 
William  Jepson,  in  company  with  Pastor  Johnson  Robinson  and  twt) 
others,  bought  a  house  and  lot  in  Leyden  in  1611  and  twenty-one  houses 
were  built  on  this  lot,  probabl\-  all  by  Jepson,  as  he  was  the  house  build- 
er of  the  Of)mpany.  William  Jepson  died  of  the  plague  in  1635,  aged 
52  years. 

Henry  Jepson,  Sa\vveaver,  a  brother  of  William  from  Worksop, 
was  also  in  Leyden  ;  also  Thomas,  a  leather  worker.  The  records  show 
that  John  Jepson,  cooper,  of  Yarmouth,  was  in  Leyden  in  1637  and  he 
was  married  to  Helena  Smith,  May  9th  of  that  year. 

Our  ancestor,  John  Jepson,  appeared  in  Boston  about  1638.  He 
was  a   Puritan  and  member  of  the  First  Church,  and  a  cordwainer  by 


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occupation.  That  he  was  closely  related  to  the  Jepsons  of  Leyden  is 
highly  probable,  is  borne  out  by  a  family  tradition  and  also  by  a  simi- 
larity of  the  names  of  his  children  and  the  Leyden  family.  That  John 
of  Leyden  and  Boston  were  identical  is  not  improbable. 

An  absence  of  leyden  records  relating  to  him  subsequent  to  the 
marriage  in  1637  is  significant.  The  Leyden  Archivist  states  that  he 
ifjrobably  left  Leyden  soon  after  his  marriage.  The  fact  that  his  occu- 
pation in  Le>  den  was  that  of  a  cooper,  while  John  of  Boston  was  a 
cordwainer,  proves  nothing,  as  several  of  the  Pilgrims  upon  their  ar- 
rival in  Holland,  changed  their  occupations.  The  Dutch  word  Kooper, 
also  means  trader  or  merchant.  The  fact  that  he  was  said  to  be  from 
Yarmouth  is  immaterial,  as  many  registered  from  the  towns  from  which 
they  started  for  Holland.  The  Parish  records  of  Yarmouth  at  that 
time  do  not  contain  the  name  of  Jepson. 

John  of  Boston  was  granted  a  lot  for  three  people  in  1639,  which 
proves  quite  conclusively  that  hie  was  married  and  had  one  child,  al- 
though his  wife  must  have  died  soon  after,  as  he  was  married  in  1656. 
A  careful  search  of  the  available  parish  records  of  the  Nottingham 
towns  has  failed  to  give  us  any  information,  but  that  is  not  to  he  won- 
dered at,  as  the  parish  records  of  the  seventeenth  century  are  incom- 
plete and  many  were  started  subsequent  to  the  year  1610,  which  was 
about  the  date  of  John  Jepson's  birth.  English  Probate  records  are 
also  unsatisfactory,  as  the  estate  usually  entailed  to  the  eldicst  son  and 
the  other  heirs  were  scarcely  mentioned.  However,  it  is  a  known  fact 
that  of  the  Pilgrims  only  a  very  few  left  any  records  by  which  they  can 
be  traced  beyond  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

Cutter's  "Historical  and  Genealogical  Memoirs  of  Middlesex 
County,"  gives  a  fairly  accurate  genealogy'  of  one  branch  of  the  Jepson 
family.  However,  they  state  that  John  Jepson's  son,  Thomas,  born 
Nov.  5,  1663,  died  1722.  The  probate  records  show  that  the  Thomas 
who  died  in  that  year  was  the  son  of  a  William  H.  Jepson,  who  was 
probably  closely  related  to  John  and  perhaps  a  j'ounger  brother. 

For  two  hundred  years  the  descendants  of  John  Jepson  took  an  ac- 
tive part  in  the  religious,  political  and  social  affairs  of  the  City  of  Bos- 
ton. A  branch  of  the  family  lives  in  the  suburbs  of  that  City  at  the 
present  time.  A  member  of  that  branch,  the  late  George  E.  Jepson  of 
Newton,  who  was  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  subject,  about  two  years 
prior  to  his  death  consented  to  write  a  short  introduction  to  this  history, 
which  will  give  the  reader  a  mental  picture  of  the  Boston  of  our  ances- 
tors and  many  interesting  reminiscences  of  our  family : 

"A  lively  desire  of  knowing  and  of  recording  our  ancestors  so  gen- 
erally prevails,  that  it  must  depend  on  the  influence  of  some  common 
principle  in  the  minds  of  men,"  remarks  Edward  Gibbon  in  his  famous 
autobiography ;  and  he  further  adds :  "We  seem  to  have  lived  in  the 
persons  of  oUr  forefathers ;  it  is  the  labor  and  reward  of  vanity  to  extend 
the  term  of  this  ideal  longevity.     Our  imagination  is  always  active  to 


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enlar^je  the  narrow  circle  in  which  nature  has  confined  us. — Our 
calmer  judgment  will  rather  tend  to  moderate  than  to  suppress  the 
pride  of  an  ancient  and  worthy  race. — Few  there  are  who  can  sincerely 
despise  in  others  an  advantage  of  \\<hich  they  are  secretly  ambitious  to 
partake.  The  knowledge  of  our  famil\-  from  a  remote  period  will  be 
always  esteemed  as  an  abstract  pre-eminence  since  it  can  never  be 
promiscuously  enjoyed." 

England  undoubtedly  may  be  said  to  be  the  cradle  of  the  Jepson 
family,  and  Boston,  New  England,  its  nursery.  There  remain  many  of 
the  name  still  in  the  former  domain.  But  the  tidal  wave  of  religious 
and  political  persecution  in  the  seventeenth  century  swept  the  greater 
part  of  them  over  to  hospitable  Holland  and  thence  to  the  rockbound 
shores  of  Massachusetts.  One  or  two  seceders  may  have  (and  indeed 
tradition  asserts  as  much)  strayed  to  Sw^eden  and  propagating  there 
gave  rise  to  the  claim  that  the  family  is  of  Scandinavian  origin — prob- 
ably an  erroneous  theory,  the  Jepsons  undoubtedly  being  indigenous  to 
the  English  soil. 

The  immigrants  to  Holland  from  England  were  almost  entirely 
of  the  sturdy  artisan  class;  not  mere  day  laborers,  content  to  earn  a 
sordid  wage,  but  men  who  mixed  their  brains  with  the  work  of  their 
hands — men  of  intelligence,  strong  common  sense,  with  "heads  to  hang 
an  inference  in" — the  class  that  no  nation,  much  less  England,  could  af- 
ford to  expatriate.  Their  metal  was  proved  to  all  the  world  when  the 
Mayflower  landed  their  advance  guard  on  Plymouth  Rock  and  they 
laid  the  foundations  there  of  the  greatest  experiment  in  popular  gov- 
ernment that  history  records. 

Of  this  type  of  virile,  self-sustaining,  intelligent  men  and  women, 
the  type  that  gives  strength,  power  and  influence  to  a  race  and  a  nation, 
was  the  Jepson  contingent.  And  the  strain,  if  not  markedly  in  the 
ascendant  by  name  in  the  annals  of  historical  events,  has  given  of  its 
best  in  unobtrusive  conduct,  in  civic  endeavor,  in  blood  and  high  devo- 
tion, to  the  upbuilding  of  the  exemplary  edifice.  Like  the  unnamed 
heroes  in  the  line  of  battle  who  alone  make  victory  possible,  the  Jepstjns 
have  contributed  their  share  to  the  establishment  of  this  continent  and 
again  in  maintaining  it  when  assailed,  "a  government  of  the  people,  by 
the  people,  and  for  the  people,"  though  they  have  left  no  other  monu- 
ment but  their  tombstones.  But  though  not  conspicuous  b\'  emblazon- 
ing its  patronymic  on  the  pillars  of  fame,  it  has  mingled  its  blood  and 
characteristics  with  some  of  the  worthiest  scions  of  the  heroic  period  of 
the  Republic.  Statesmen,  military  leaders,  divines,  college  professors 
of  renown,  and  men  of  mark  in  the  world's  literary  annuls  have  owed 
their  origin  to  its  loins.  Samuel  Adams,  the  uncompromising  patriot 
and  Father  of  the  American  Revolution,  later  a  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts; and  John  Lathrop  Motley,  the  eminent  historian,  are  among 
the  illustrious  ones  associated  by  ties  of  consanguinity  with  the  family 
name ;  while  collateral  branches  springing  from  the  same  genealogical 


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tree  are  the  Greenes,  Cushings,  Gardners,  Rolfes,  Coddingtons,  Cot- 
tons, Coxes,  Tuckers,  Matchetts,  Sumners,  Perkinses,  Daniels  and  the 
fine  Huguenot  families  of  Sigourneys,  Chaunceys  and  LeBarons. 

Xhe  advent  of  the  Jepsons  in  America  was  in  the  person  of  John 
of  that  ilk,  whom  we  hail  as  our  immigrant  ancestor.  The  date  of  his 
arrival  cannot  definitely  be  stated,  but  it  was  certainly  previous  to  1639. 
He  was  supposed  to  have  been  about  twenty-nine  years  old,  married  and 
with  one  child.  In  1639  there  is  a  Boston  record  to  the  effect  that  he 
was  granted  "a  great  lot"  at  the  "Mount,"  as  Mount  Wollaston,  later 
Braintree,  was  familiarly  known.  It  was  a  suburb  and  under  its  juris- 
diction. This  Jepson  grant  was  for  three  heads,  at  the  rate  of  three 
shillings  an  acre,  indicating  that  at  that  time  he  had  one  child.  There 
is  an  interesting  episode  connected  with  John  Jepson's  acquirement  of 
this  "great  lot"  of  land  in  Wollaston.  Incidentally  and  by  way  of 
a  brief  parenthesis  the  name  Braintree,  afterward  given  to  the  incor- 
porated town  which  included  Wollaston,  gained  a  unique  celebrity.  A 
Braintree  man  traveling  in  the  West,  fell  into  conversation  with  a 
stranger  who  inquired  casually  as  to  his  place  of  residence,  and  when 
told  responded:  "Braintree — why  I  never  heard  of  such  a  town."  "I 
blush  for  your  ignorance,  friend.  Braintree  is  the  most  celebrated  town 
in  the  United  States,  for  it  is  the  birthplace  of  two  Presidents  of  the 
Republic  and  the  residence  of  one  of  them  today — John  Adams  and  his 
son.  John  Quincy  Adams." 

For  what  specific  service,  if  any,  John  Jepson  was  awarded  this 
Wollaston  land,  is  not  known.  The  "Book  of  Possessions"  merely 
records  the  fact.  But  how  the  town  of  Boston  came  to  dispose  of  the 
territory  known  as  the  "Mount"  is  a  most  interesting  incident  of  its 
earh  history.  An  Englishman,  ^lorton  by  name,  headed  a  colony  that 
took  up  land  on  \h.  Wollaston.  These  colonists  brought  with  them 
many  of  the  ancient  customs  and  diversions  that  were  interdicted  by  the 
severe  Puritan  ordinances.  Their  conduct  soon  drew  upon  them  the 
reprobation  of  the  Boston  community,  who  finally  resorted  to  extreme 
measures  and  forced  the  "undesirables"  to  vacate  their  holdings  and 
shipped  them  back  to  the  old  country.  The  event  and  the  locality  have 
been  celebrated  bv  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  in  one  of  his  most  charming 
and  svmpathetic  "Twice-Told  Tales,"  "The  Mavpole  of  Merrv  Mount," 
and  Motley,  the  historian,  while  a  student  at  Harvard  College,  tried 
bis  "prentice  band"  on  a  historical  novel  having  the  "Mount"  for  its 
locale,  under  the  title  of  "Morton  of  Merry  Mount." 

Whether  John  the  First  cultivated  a  farm  on  his  "great  lot,"  or 
made  of  it  a  summer  retreat,  certain  it  is  that  Boston  was  his  perma- 
nent residence  all  his  life.  And  his  descendants  generally  clung  to  their 
birthplace,  their  domiciles,  whether  as  husbands  or  wives,  being  situated 
in  favored  sections  of  the  town.  The  north  end  of  Boston  in  the  Colon- 
ial period  was  the  "Court-end"  of  the  town,  and  it  was  here  that  the 
larger  number  of  the    famil\-    had  their    residences.     From    Marshall 


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street  ran  Salt  Creek  Lane  which  led  to  what  was  known  as  the  Mill 
Creek  or  Pond,  the  corner  buildiny;  of  which  was  formerly  known  as 
Jepson's  Corner,  presumably  constituting  the  shop  and  residence  of  one 
of  John's  numerous  progeny.  The  merchants  and  artisans  of  the  period 
generally  lived  over  their  stores  and  workshops.  Paul  Revere  lived  hard 
by  on  Charter  street  and  carried  on  his  work  as  a  gold  and  silver-smith 
in  the  basement  of  his  house.  William  Jepson,  grandfather  of  the  pres- 
ent writer,  lived,  a  near  neighbor  of  Revere,  on  this  street;  he  was  a 
carpenter  and  builder  and  was  associated  with  the  "King  of  the  Me- 
chanics," as  Col.  Revere  was  designated,  in  forming  the  Mass.  Mechan- 
ics' Charitable  Association — an  institution  still  flourishing  and  perform- 
ing an  excellent  work.  Paul  Revere  was  its  first  president  and  William 
Jepson  is  the  second  name  signed  to  its  charter.  The  winter  previous  to 
Gen.  Gage's  disastrous  expedition  to  Lexington  and  Concord,  Paul  Re- 
vere organized  a  band  of  north-end  mechanics  to  keep  a  night  patrol 
watch  of  the  British  and  Tory  movements.  No  question  that  more  than 
one  Jepson  was  in  this  patriotic  detail.  The  north  end  of  Boston  was  a 
hive  of  anti-British  sentiment.  The  famous  Tea  Part\  was  originated 
there.  Neither  the  personnel  of  that  raid  on  the  East  India  ships  nor 
Revere's  midnight  patrol  have  ever  been  wholly  revealed.  The  north- 
end  mechanics  were  accustomed  to  meet  to  arrange  their  plans  for  cir- 
cumventing Gage's  designs  either  in  the  Green  Dragon  tavern,  which 
Daniel  Webster  named  the  Headquarters  of  the  Revolution,  or  in  the 
great  calk  or  calkers'  houseship,  calkers  'forming  a  considerable  element 
of  the  denizens  of  the  north  end.  It  was  from  their  deliberations  that 
we  derive  the  word  caucus.  On  Sheaffe  street,  a  stone's  throw  from 
Charter  street,  lived  John  Jepson,  a  great  grandson  of  the  first  John. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  In  1796  Margaret  Jepson  and  her 
son,  Benjamin,  were  living  on  this  street. 

The  west  end  of  Boston  in  early  times  impigned  so  closely  on  the 
north  end  that  only  an  imaginary  line  ma\  be  said  to  separate  them.  It 
is  jomewhat  different  today.  The  west  end,  or  that  important  part  of 
it,  the  Back  Bay,  is  the  abode  of  wealth  and  such  aristocracy  as  demo- 
cratic America  can  boast,  while,  as  extremes  meet  in  great  cities,  there 
is  a  social  cleavage  line  marked  on  the  other  side,  by  the  abodes  and 
places  of  business  of  a  cirss  that  ?dd  very  little  to  the  fame  and  good 
name  of  Boston.  In  the  heart  of  this  district  of  cheap  shops  and  poor 
habitations,  of  untidy  courts  and  lanes,  of  foreign  faces  and  hideous  jar- 
gon, a  locality  in  which  it  is  dangerous  to  be  at  night,  were  formerly 
pretentious  mansions  and  living  in  them  some  of  the  leading  and  well- 
to-do  families  of  the  town.  On  the  corner  of  what  was  then  Gouch  and 
Green  streets  was  the  fine  estate  of  Major  Nathaniel  Call,  the  father  of 
Mary  Call,  who  married  William  Jepson,  born  in  Boston  in  1770.  The 
mansion — for  it  was  too  imposing  for  that  day  to  be  called  a  house 
merely — stood  back  from  the  street,  in  somewhat  extensive  grounds, 
containing  a  flower  garden  with  shrubbery  and   trees,   the   whole  sur- 


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rounded  by  an  iron  fence.  In  the  writer's  boyhood,  he  frequently  visited 
the  Call  residence,  then  occupied  by  one  of  the  Major's  daughters,  and 
enjoyed  the  privilege  of  wandering  through  its  many  rooms  and  inspect- 
ing the  Colonial  furniture — long  since  distributed  but  priceless  if  it  were 
in  existence  today — and  the  old  portraits  and  relics  of  the  doughty 
Major,  among  the  most  interesting  of  which  was  his  Continental  uni- 
form, the  same  he  wore  according  to  family  tradition,  when  serving  on 
Washington's  staff.  He  was  with  his  chief  that  terrible  winter  at  Val- 
ley Forge. 

Major  Call's  estate  included  quite  a  large  section  of  both  the  west 
and  the  north  ends.  He  owned  the  entire  west  side  of  Gouch  street,  the 
northerly  end  of  which  terminated  in  his  lumber-wharf  situated  on 
South  Margin  street,  ;o  called  because  it  formed  the  border  or  margin 
of  the  Mill  Creek.  This  creek  flowed  into  the  town  dock  and  afforded 
ready  access  to  Boston  Harbor.  The  Major  had  five  daughters,  Mary 
or  "Polly"  as  she  was  nicknamed,  teing  the  youngest  and  favorite  one. 
He  promised  to  build  a  house  for  each  of  his  girls  when  they  married. 
All  of  them  were  married  and  the  father  fulfilled  his  promise.  To 
"Polly"  he  gave  a  brick  house  with  a  large  garden  on  Gouch  street ; 
she  died  in  that  house  at  the  age  of  87.  That,  as  well  as  the  Call  man- 
sion, have  given  place  to  modern  structures. 

On  Temple  street  Samuel  Jepson  owned  and  lived  in  a  fine  house 
with  a  numerous  family.  He  was  born  in  Boston  in  1736  and  was  a 
barber-surgeon  by  occupation,  a  man  of  substance  and  influence.  In  the 
early  times  the  barbers  united  a  double  service ;  it  was  their  ofifice  to  at- 
tend to  emergenc\  cases  of  sickness  or  accidents ;  they  were  trained  in 
blood-letting,  a  species  of  treatment  then  in  vogue  with  all  pathologists ; 
and  the\'  exercised  much  of  the  influence  in  the  community  of  regular 
physicians.  Their  symbol  of  business  is  derived  from  the  surgical  branch 
of  their  profession;  the  alternate  diagonal  stripes  of  red  and  white  of  a 
barber's  pole  being  indicative  of  the  white  and  ensanguined  bandages 
used  to  bind  a  wound  or  fracture. 

The  present  writer's  grandfather  and  father — both  William  Jepsons 
— were  born  in  this  hoifse.  The  latter's  reminiscences  of  the  place  and 
of  his  grandfather,  Samuel,  often  told,  were  enforced  and  doubly  im- 
pressed on  my  memory,  bv  a  visit  to  the  old  house  with  my  father  a  few 
years  before  his  death.  He  could  recall  of  the  old  gentleman  little  save 
that  he  was  a  man  of  stalwart  proportions  and  evidently  formerly  of 
great  vigor ;  but  his  recollections  of  him  were  confined  to  seeing  him  sit- 
ting in  the  chimnev  corner,  nursing  his  gout  and  still  ruling  his  house- 
bold  somewhat  arbitrarily,  after  the  fashion  of  the  time,  notwithstanding 
that  he  was  then  more  than  ninety  years  of  age  and  totally  blind  beside. 
But  his  mind  was  unimpaired  and  he  lived  to  the  great  age  of  ninety- 
three. 

Temple  street  runs  down  the  steep  of  Beacon  Hill — 'from  Mount 
Vernon  street  to  Cambridge  street.     Facing  it  on  the  former  avenue  was 


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the  celebrated  John  Hancock  House.  In  my  father's  boyhood  it  was  oc- 
cu'pied  b\  a  nephew  of  the  patriot  whcse  defiant  signature  was  the  first 
to  be  affixed  to  the  immortal  Declaratior*  of  Independence.  As  the  Pres- 
ident of  Oingress,  Hancock's  name  was  supposed  to  suffice  for  the  au- 
thorization of  the  instrument,  but  one  member  contended  that  all  should 
fign  such  an  important  and  trersonable  document.  "We  must  all  hang 
together."  said  he.  "Yes,"  said  Benjamin  Franklin,  "or  we  shall  all 
hang  separately.  " 

John  Hancock  had  no  children;  he  willed  the  property  to  this 
nephew  and  namesake  who  had  three  sons,  with  whom  my  sire  used  to 
play.  The  Hancock  house  fell  before  the  utilitarian  hand  of  so-called 
progress.  A  model  of  colonial  architecture,  and  encompassed  by  a  histor- 
ical halo,  its  demolition  was  more  than  a  blunder;  it  was  an  irremedi- 
able crime.  This  same  iconoclastic  commercialism  would  have,  and  tried 
to.  deprive  Boston  of  three  of  its  most  cjjerished  relics  of  "the  times  that 
tried  men's  souls" — the  Old  South  Meeting-House,  Faneuil  Hall  and 
the  Old  State  House — respectively  dubbed  the  Sanctuary  of  Freedom, 
the  Cradle  of  Liberty  and  as  John  Adams  designated  the  last  named  edi- 
fice, the  Birthplace  of  Independence.  But  the  regret  and  indignation 
which  followed  the  destruction  of  the  Hancock  House  aroused  so  violent 
a  protest  against  the  project  of  desecrating  these  hallowed  shrines  that 
in  the  end,  but  with  great  difficulty,  they  were  preserved  to  posterity. 

The  Jepson  habitation  stood  in  a  large  garden  far  back  from  the 
street.  When  the  writer  visited  it  a  block  of  brick  buildings  had  been 
erected  in  front  of  it,  an  archway  let  into  the  middle  of  the  block,  afford- 
ing a  means  of  access  to  the  ancient  house,  which  shorn  of  its  garden  and 
ruinous  and  unsightly  as  to  walls  and  windows,  was  occupied  as  a  third- 
rate  boarding  house.  But  all  the  old  Boston  habitations  that  have  sur- 
vived the  tooth  of  time  have  ppssed  through  a  similar  experience.  A  few 
of  these  ancient  residential  edifices  still  linger  in  the  west  and  north  ends 
of  the  town,  evidences  and  examples  of  the  unique  charm  the  section  pos- 
sessed in  its  hal\C()n  period,  though  in  an  abject  and  forlorn  condition  to- 
dav  and  serving  as  rcokeries  for  innumerable  colonies  of  foreign  and  un- 
sympathetic denizens.  Happily  among  these  derelicts  the  Paul  Revere 
domicile  on  Charter  street,  hrs  been  lately  rescued  from  the  common  fate 
and  restored  to  its  original  state  by  a  patriotic  society  who  maintain  and 
keep  it  open  for  public  observance. 

As  the  nursery  of  its  family,  as  it  may  fairly  be  claimed  to  be,  the 
Jepsons  have  a  chartered  right  to  take- pride  in  Boston,  though  under  its 
present  condition  of  alien  political  domination  that  pride  is  tinctured 
with  humiliation.  It  is  with  a  natural  regret  and  abhorrence  that  one 
sees  his  ancestral  abode,  round  which  centers  revered  traditions,  pass  into 
the  hands  of  a  stranger.  How  much  worse  the  feeling  when  he  witnesses 
not  only  the  home  of  his  forefathers,  but  the  once  most  favored  section 
of  his  native  place  given  over  to  the  despoiling  and  desecrating  dominion 
of  a  foreign  population  of  primitiv  e  habits  and  instincts,  ranging  scarcely 


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higher  than  those  of  the  stye  and  the  kennel.  But,  at  least,  though  the 
Boston  of  today  is  not  the  Boston  of  the  Winthrops,  the  Adamses,  and 
the  Hancocks,  nor  even  of  a  Webster,  a  Sumner  or  a  Phillips,  but  rather 
is,  as  a  witty  Irish  politician  once  proclaimed,  the  Boston  of  the  Ma- 
guires,  the  Murphies  and  the  O'Briens;  and  though  the  English  unde- 
filed  that  once  alone  was  heard  in  its  legislative  halls  has  given  place  to 
what  O.  Henry  has  designated  the  "City-Hall  brogue,"  yet  Boston's 
great  history  and  her  glorious  traditions,  her  relics  and  monuments  ex- 
emplifying her  illustrious  achievements  in  the  cause  of  humanity,  of  edu- 
cation ard  patriotism — these  remain  as  a  buttress  to  the  enduring  pride 
and  admiration  of  the  Bostonians  of  the  old  stock  and  their  descendants, 
and  a  Pharos  of  light  and  leading  whose  lustre  will  never  be  dimmed. 


J  EPSON  COAT  OF  ARMS 

Of  the  Enirlish  armorial  bearings  granted  at  various  times  to  mem- 
bers of  the  Jepson-Jephson  families,  the  author  has  selected  for  this  book 
the  one  here  depicted. 

Arms — Ermine,  three  bugle  horns!  sable,  stringed  and  garnished  or. 
See  W.  Berry — Encyclopedia  Heraldica,  V'ol.  2. 

Crest — On  the  top  of  a  tower,  an  eagle  rising  proper  ;  in  beak  an 
acorn,  slipped  and  leaved  vert.  See  Knight  r.nd  Butters, — Crests,  Vol.  2, 
Plate  99,  f^g.  4. 


S\mbolism : 

The  Ermine  represents  dignity  and  high  position  of  the  Jepson  on 
whom  this  coat  of  arms  was  conferred.  The  bugle  horns,  one  who  di- 
rects and  encourages  in  high  pursuits.  "Follow  me,"  says  the  bugle  call. 
The  tower  top  signifies  strength.  Tlie  eagle  indicates  a  high  and  lofty 
spirit.  The  man  of  action  in  high  and  mighty  affairs  and  the  acorn 
branch  he  carries  shows  that  his  actions  were  fruitful  in  results. 


EXPLANATION  OF  ABBREVIATIONS,  ETC. 

a. — Aged, 
b. — jBorn. 
bap. — ^Baptized. 
d.— Died. 

int. — Intentions   of   marriage, 
m. — married, 
unm. — Unmarried. 
Large  Capital  Letters  in  brackets  refer  to  the  Appendix. 


Genealogy  of  the  Jepson  Family 


John'  Jepson,  who  was  horn  1610  (see  deposition  Suffolk  Co., 
Deeds  1655)  birthplace  and  parentage  unknown,  d.  1687,  was 
granted  a  "great  lot  at  the  Mount,  for  three  heads,  at  the  rate  of 
three  shillings  an  acre;  upon  the  entrance  of  the  platform  or 
bounders  thereof  after  surveying  of  it  and  that  to  be  at  the  next 
towne  meeting  thereunto,"  (See  Book  of  Possessions,  page  41), 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  was  made  a  citi- 
zen of  the  town  in  1647,  was  by  occupation  a  cordwainer;  in 
1670  was  appointed  sealer  of  leather,  was  fined  for  giving  em- 
ployment to  John  Everson,  a  man  who  had  been  blacklisted  by 
the  Colony.  In  1676  was  on  a  committee  appointed  by  the  gen- 
eral court  to  see  that  the  law  restricting  the  drinking  of  liquor 
be  enforced.  He  owned  a  piece  of  land  42  feet  wide  and  155 
feet  long  on  the  Mill  Creek  which  ran  from  the  harbor  to  the 
Mill  Pond,  nearly  upon  the  line  of  the  present  Blackstone  street. 
The  Mill  Creek  end  of  this  lot  was  occupied  by  a  wharf  and  a 
shop  adjoining  same  and  Paddy's  Alley  (the  present  N.  Centre 
Street)  ran  from  Ann  Street,  (now  North  Street),  to  Middle 
Street,  (now  Hanover  Street),  directly  to  the  wharf  in  a  north- 
westerly direction,  and  a  passage  way  connected  this  street  with 
the  street  on  the  other  side  of  the  lot  (A).  He  deeded  this  lot 
to  his  son  John  in  1685  for  a  consideration  of  eighty  pounds.  (  L) 
He  also  owned  other  land  in  this  vicinity  on  both  sides  of  the 
Mill  Creek,  his  own  homestead  probably  being  located  on  the 
North  East  side  of  the  "Creek,"  and  fronted  on  Middle  Street. 
Mendon  was  largely  settled  by  people  from  Braintree  and  Boston 
and  John  Jepson  had  a  40  acre  "House  lot"  there  and  lived 
there  for  a  short  time,  the  records  stating  that,  "The  24th  of 
March,  1664,  Goodman  Jipson  is  received  an  inhabitant."  He 
disposed  of  property  there  in  1673,  but  may  have  retained  a  por- 
tion of  his  land  and  probably  owned  land  outside  of  Boston,  as 
a  deed  given  by  his  son  Thomas  in  1695  conveyed  all  right  in 
his  father's  estate,  "laying  and  being  in  Boston  or  elsewhere." 
The  records  of  King  Phillip's  War  showing  that  John  Gkpson 
fought  in  the  Garrison  at  Mendon  in  1675,  probably  refer  to 
John  Jepson.  He  was  m.  and  had  one  child  when  he  arrived 
in  Boston.  He  m.  secondly  1656  Emma,  wid.  of  John  Codding- 
ton,  who  d.  about  1700.  He  d.  in  1687.  His  wife  and  son, 
John  were  Executors  of  his  Estate.     For  inventnr\-  see  B. 

Children: 
i.        John,  b.  March   1,   1657,  d.  May  19,   1657. 


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,  ii.      John,  b.  May  8,  1661. 

iii.     Thomas,  b.  Nov.   5,   1663. 

iv.     S.^RAH,  m.  Samuel  Rolfe  of  Newbury. 

V.  William,  b.  1667,  was  a  cordwainer  and,  for  many  years  sealer  of 
leather,  constable,  tithing  man,  overseer  of  poor  and  surveyor  of 
highways.  He  owned  property  on  Marshall  Street  and  on  this 
land  is  located  the  famous  Boston  Stone  (See  Drake's  "Old 
Landmarks").  He  m.  Anna,  daughter  of  Mary  Brook,  by  her 
former  husband  Josiah  Cooper."  She  d.  in  1720.  He  d.  and  was 
interred  in  Kings  Chapel  burial  ground.  A  tablet  contains  this 
inscription:  Here  lies  ye  body  of  Mr.  Willia.m  Jepson,  aged  79 
years  who  died  Dec.  ye  24,  1746  (C)."  In  his  will  he  gives  ten 
pounds  "Old  Tenor"  to  his  nephew  William  Jepson,  To  Hannah 
Beasly,  one-half  of  his  household  goods  and  to  William  Payne, 
his  executor,  the  remainder  of  his  property. 

vi.  Emma,  b.  Sept.  20,  1673;  m.  first  John  Kelly;  he  d.  previous  to 
1700.  She  m.  secondly,  Nov.  5,  1700,  Sylvanus  Plummer  of 
Newbury. 

vii.  James,  b.  Sept.  20,  1673,  was  drowned  in  Romney  Marsh  (now 
Revere)    Oct.,    1692. 

yoHN'  Jepson  {John'-)  b.  May  8,  1661,  d.  1722,  was  a  house 
builder  and  carpenter.  In  1700  he  was  chosen  tithing  man  at  pub- 
lic meeting  according  to  law.  He  erected  many  houses  and  was 
employed  by  the  town  to  erect  and  repair  public  buildings.  His 
estate  was  administered  by  Edward  Paige,  Ichabod  Rogers  and 
Henry  Rolfe  of  Newbur\-,  Samuel  Sewall  being  Judge  of  Pro- 
bate. His  children  John,  William  and  Benjamin  being 
minors,  were  allowed  to  select  guardians  and  a  guardian  was 
appointed  for  Mary  a.  12.  The  Mill  Creek  lot  which  he  pur- 
chased of  his  father  in  1685  and  a  plan  of  which  is  shown  (A) 
was  divided  among  his  heirs  in  1728.  In  1750  the  portion  which 
had  been  set  off  to  his  son  John  was  again  divided  among  the 
heirs  of  William  who  d.  in  1746  and  Benjamin  and  Mary, 
the  son  John  having  been  "drowned  at  sea."  For  inventor)'  of 
John  2's  personal  Estate  see  (B).  John'''  m.  three  times:  first 
in  1686,  Ruth,  dau.  of  Richard  Gardner  of  Woburn.  She  was 
b.  April  1,  1661,  and  d.  Oct.  27,  1695.  Secondly  April  1,  1696 
Apphira,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Rolfe  of  Newbury  (D).  She  d.  in 
1713.  Thirdly  Jan.  19,  1714,  Mercy  Daniels.  Ceremony 
by  the  Rev.  Cotton  Mather.     She  d.  in  Hingham,  Nov.  19,  1750. 

Children  by  first  wife: 

John,  b.  Aug.  24,  1687,  died  soon. 

Ruth,  b.  June  7,  1689,  d.  young. 

Ruth,  b.  June  28,  1690,  m.  May  17,  1711,  Edward  Paige. 

John,  b.  Aug.  5,  1692,  d.  Feb.  7,"  1793. 

Anna,  b.  Apr.  19,  1694,  m.  July  5,  1716,  Ichabod  Rogers. 

Children  by  second  wife : 
Apphia,  b.  Jan.  1,  1698,  d.  young. 
Abigail,  b.  Feb.  17,  1699,  d.  young. 


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viii.  John,  h.  Mar.  26,  1701;  d.  at  sea. 

4.  ix.      \VlLLi.\M,  b.  1702. 

5.  X.      Benjamin,  b.  Mar.  21,  1705. 

xi.     Eliza,  b.  Aug.  17,  1708,  d.  young. 

xii.    Mary,  b.  Mar.  17,  1710,  «as  living  in  1750  and  unm. 

Child  by  third  wife : 

6.  xiii.   MiCAH,  b.  Aug.  21,  1716. 

Thom.as-'  Jepson  (JohnM  b.  in  Boston  Nov.  5,  1663,  date  of 
death  unknown,  was  a  tailor ;  another  Thomas  who  was  the  son 
of  a  William  H.  Jepson  mentioned  in  the  introduction  was  a 
soldier  and  d.  at  Fort  Mary,  Winter  Harbor,  Maine  in  1720. 
Thomas  Jepson,  the  tailor  signed  the  bond  of  William  H. 
Jepson  who  was  the  administrator  of  the  Estate  of  Thomas 
the  soldier  in  1721.  He  occupied  a  brick  shop  on  the  town  dock 
in  \b^8  and  lived  in  Providence  Street  or  Cooks,  in  1716.  In 
1695  he  deeded  to  his  brother  John  "all  rights,  etc.  in  my  fa- 
ther's estate  lying  in  Boston  and  elsewhere  in  New  England" 
signed  by  Thomas  Jepson  and  "Hannah,  my  present  viafe" 
Feb.  12,  1695.  He  m.  twice,  first  Hannah — about  1690;  sec- 
ondly Elizabeth  Talbott,  Nov.  12,  1708. 

Children  by  first  wife: 
i.  Thomas,  b.  about  1691,  bapt.  Aug.  10,  1701  in  First  Church.  It  is 
thought  by  many  that  he  was  the  founder  of  the  New  England 
JeflFerson  family  and  was  the  Thomas  Jeperson  of  Mendon,  Ded- 
ham  and  Douglas,  Mass.,  whose  descendants  have  gradually 
changed  the  spelling  of  the  name  from  Jeperson  to  Jepherson, 
and  finally  to  Jefferson. 
ii.       Richard,   b.    Apr.    16,    1692,   bapt.   First   Church   Aug.    10,    1701.      M. 

Mar.  8,  1719,  Mary  Ball. 
iii.     Hannah,  b.  Dec.  29,  1693,  bapt.  First  Church  Aug.  10,  1701. 
iv.     Emma,  b.  Feb.  9,  1695,  bapt.  Aug.  10,  1701,  First  Church.     M.  Nov 
23,  1714,  James  Sands. 
Children  by  second  wife: 
Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.  24,  1710. 

k  William'  Jepson  (Joiin-,  John')  b.  in  1702,  wrs  a  tailor;  was 
a  member  of  the  New  North  Church,  uniting  Apr.  29,  1722. 
He  d.  Feb.  9,  1745,  and  was  interred  in  King's  Chapel  burial 
ground  (C).  He  m.  May  19,  1726,  Margaret  Sumner,  who 
became  a  member  of  the  New  North  Church,  being  admitted 
Mar.  21,  1735.  She  acted  as  administrator  of  her  husband's 
estate.  In  1776  she  petitioned  for  a  license  to  retail  at  her  shop 
on  Ann  street.  In  1781  she  was  licensed  to  sell  tea.  "Bonds  same 
date,  penalty  100  pounds." 

Children  : 
i.        William,  b.  Jan.  22,  1727,  d.  young. 


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7.  ii.      John,  b.  Feb.  18,  1728. 

iii.  Margaret,  b.  Feb.  9,  1730.  In  1785  her  Cousin  Mary  willed  her 
the  bulk  of  her  estate  and  August  20,  1791,  she  transferred  to 
her  brother  Benjamin  a  house  and  land  in  Beverly-Sheaff  street, 
bequeathed  to  her  by  Mary  and  being  same  property  which 
Mary  bought  from  Asa  Leach. 

iv.  William,  b.  Jan.  2,  1732,  d.  Feb.  23,  1792.  Was  a  tailor  residing  in 
Charter  street  in  1789.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  He 
m.  Nov.  28,  1771,  Elizabeth  Washburn,  who  was  b.  1733. 

8.  V.       Benjamin,  b.  Dec.  30,  1734. 

9.  vi.     Samuel,  b.  Jan.  1st,  1736. 
10.  vii.    Henry,  b.  Feb.  5,  1738. 

viii.  James,  bapt.  Dec.  14,  1740,  d.  young. 

ix.     James,  bapt.   Feb.  20,  1742,  probably  living  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in 

1790. 
X.      Mary,  bapt.  Sept.  8,  1745. 

5.  Benjamin^'  Jepson  [John-,  John^)    b.    Mar.    31.    1750,    was   a 

peruke-maker  (E).  In  1746  was  bondsman  for  M.arg.aret 
J  EPSON  ES  executor  of  her  husband's  estate.  He  m.  Nov.  26, 
1730,  Sarah  Crosby. 

Children: 

i.  William,  b.  Apr.  12,  1733,  in  Boston.  He  became  a  druggist  and 
physician  and  moved  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  about  1757.  "Jr. 
William  Jepson  educated  as  apothecary  and  instructed  in  the 
mysteries  of  physic  and  surgery,  settled  in  Hartford.  Here  at 
the  sign  of  the  Unicorn  and  Mortar  in  Queen  Street,  (Now 
Main),  in  partnership  with  Dr.  Sylvester  Gardner,  who  lived  in 
Boston  and  furnished  the  capital,  he  carried  on  the  business  of 
apothecary  and  grocer;  that  is,  he  kept  tea,  sugar  and  spice,  as 
apothecaries  then  generally  did".  He  was  a  member  of  Christ 
Episcopal  Church  and  of  St.  John's  Masonic  Lodge  in  1762. 
About  1769,  he  became  embarrassed  in  business,  through  his 
lenity  and  good  nature,  as  he  alleged  (F).  In  Apr.,  1775  he 
was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  Second  Regiment  raised  in  defence 
of  the  Colony.  Thatcher's  Medical  Biography,  published  in  1828, 
speaks  of  him  as  one  of  the  prominent  professional  characters 
of  the  last  century.  He  m.  Susanna,  dau.  of  Daniel  Collyer,  Dec. 
2,  1879.  He  d.  May  21,  1783,  a.  50.  In  the  settlement  of  his 
estate  a  cousin  Lemuel  Jepson  was  employed,  in  1788,  to  post  his 
books,  for  which  he  was  allowed  twenty-eight  pounds  and 
twelve  pounds  for  his  board  for  thirty  weeks  while  doing  same. 

ii.  Mary,  b.  about  1735,  willed  the  most  of  her  property  to  her  Cousin 
Margaret  Jepson   (G).     Shed.  1790. 

6.  MiCAH-*  Jepson,  {John-,  John')  b.  in  Boston  August  2,  1716,  d. 

in  Goshen,  Mass.,  1798.  Moved  to  Hingham  with  his  mother 
in  1723,  in  which  year  she  married  John  Orcutt  of  that  town. 
He  was  a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  lived  in  Hingham  until  1771, 
and  in  that  year,  he  and  his  wife  Marv  were  admitted  members 
of  the  Church  in  Chesterfield,  by  letter  from  Cohasset,  which 
was   originally  a  part  of    Hingham.     Goshen    was  taken    from 


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12. 


Chesterfield  and  incorporated  as  a  separate  town  in  1781,  after 
which  year  the  records  of  the  family  appear  in  Goshen.  In  1797, 
MiC.AH  Jef'SON  appeared  at  the  recorder's  office  in  Northamp- 
ton and  signed  a  deed  of  about  twenty-eight  acres  of  land  in 
Goshen  to  his  son  S.amuel;  said  land  had  originally  been  pur- 
chased from  Robert  Webster  in  1771,  and  Dr.  Benjamin  Bur- 
gess, and  adjoined  land  of  Isaac  Walker  and  Nehemiah  Bates. 
The  consideration  was  one  hundred  pounds.  He  married  twice, 
first  at  Hingham  in  1741,  Elizabeth  Souther,  dau.  of  Joseph 
and  Content  Souther  (T6wer).  She  d.  Mav  23,  1748,  and  he 
married  secondly  Mrs.  Mary  Bate  Joy,  widow  of  Joseph  Joy 
and  dau.  of  David  and  Patience  Bate.  She  was  b.  in  Hingham, 
May  11,  1729,  and  d.  in  Goshen  May  11,  1800. 

Children  by  first  wife: 

Isaiah,  b.  Mar.  5,  1746,  d.  in  infancy. 

Hannah,  b.  Dec.  12,  1747. 

John,  b.  Apr.   11,  1754. 

Joseph  Joy,  b.  Apr.  25,  1756. 
V.      Elizabeth,  b.  June  4,  1758. 
vi.     Mercy,  b.  Sept.  14,  1760. 

13.  vii.    David,  b.  Sept.  5,  1762. 

viii.  MicAH,  b.  July  14,  1765,  m.  Mary  H.awkins  of  Wliamstown  in  Apr. 
1790.  In  1781  lie  enlisted  in  Revolutionary  army  to  help  guard 
stores  at  Springfield,  Mass. 

14.  ix.     Samuel,  b.  July  19,  1767. 

X.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  3,  1773,  m.  Ebenezer  Hawkins  of  Williamstown, 
Feb.  16,  1794. 

'.  JoHX^  Jepsox  {If'il/uun',  John'-.  Jolni^)  b.  in  Boston  Feb.  18, 
1728,  d.  1797,  w?s  a  tailor.  In  1749  he  joined  with  his  mother, 
Margaret  and  Benjamin  and  Mary,  heirs  of  John  Jepson", 
asking  for  a  division  of  the  portion  of  the  land  on  the  Mill 
Creek  which  had  been  allotted  to  John'  in  the  division  of  1728 
(A),  said  John  having  been  drowned  at  sea.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolution.  His  house  and  shop  on  King  street  (now 
State  Street)  was  burned  in  the  great  fire  of  1760.  In  1796  he 
was  living  on  Sheafe  street.  The  data  concerning  his  f<imily  are 
mostly  found  in  the  Hollis  Street  Church  records.  He  m.  twice, 
first  May  23,  1754,  Thankfll.  dau.  of  William  and  Thank- 
ful Cox,  (Maudsley)  and  sister  of  Lemmuel  and  Jesse  Cox,  the 
noted  bridge  builders  and  inventors.  She  was  b.  at  Hingham 
Nov.  3,  1729,  and  d.  in  Boston  Apr.  15,  1774.  He  m.  secondly 
Ann  Gooding,  Nov.  16,  1777,  who  d.  in  Cambridge  Aug.  3, 
1823,  a.  90. 

Children  all  b\   (irst  wife: 

i.       Margaret,  bap.  Nov.  14,  1756,  d.  about  1775. 
ii.      Martha,  bap.  Oct  15,  1758. 


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15.  iii.     John,  bap.  Aug.  3,  1760. 

16.  iv.     Lemuel  Cox,  bap.  May  30,  1762. 
V.      Samuel,  bap.  Sept.  2,  1764. 

17.  vi.     Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  12,  1766,  bap.  Dec.  7,  1766. 

vii.    Susannah,  bap.  Apr.  2,  1769,  m.  William  Roberts,  Nov.  7,  1793. 
viii.  Rebecca,  bap.  Aug.   18,  1771,  m.  Samuel  Goodman,  Nov.   13,   1800. 
He  d.  Nov.   1802. 

8.  Benjamin^  Jepsox  (M"dlwvi\  John-,  John^)  b.  Dec.  30,  1734, 
.  d.  1811,  was  a  merchrnt  and  a  man  of  prominence.  Held  vari- 
ous public  offices,  including  that  of  collector  of  taxes.  During 
the  Revolution,  wes  active  in  raising  men  and  provisions  for  the 
arm}',  and  in  looking  after  the  families  of  non-commissioned  sol- 
diers and  officers  to  see  if  they  were  in  need.  The  records  show 
that  he  owned  and  handled  various  pieces  of  real  estate,  both  in 
and  out  of  Boston.  He  was  burned  out  in  the  great  fire  of  1760. 
In  1798  he  owned  and  occupied  a  three  story  house  fronting 
southerly  on  Sheafe  Street,  and  northerly  on  Hull  Street.  He 
m.  Jan.  29,  1761,  Mary  Sigourney,  who  was  b.  Aug.  31,  1736, 
and  d.  May  2,  1818. 

Children : 
i.       Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  26,  1761,  d.  Sept.  2,  1762. 

ii.      Mary,  b.  Mar.  31,  1763,  d.  Apr.  16,  1797,  m.  Daniel  Bigelow.     Chil- 
dren: 1,  Maria,  2,  Nancy,  3,  Emma. 

9.  Samuel*  Jepson   (H'illiaiii\  John'-.  John^)  h.  Jan.  1,  1736,  d. 

Jan.  14,  1829.  (See  page  20).  He  purchased  a  house  and  lot  on 
Temple  Street  in  1768.  United  with  the  West  Church  of  Bos- 
Sept.  3,  1769.     He  m.  Lydia,— d.  April  27,  1812,  a.  70. 

Children  b.  in  Boston: 

18.  i.        Samuel,  b.  Aug  25,   1769. 

19.  ii.      William,  b.  Oct.  20,  1773,  d.  Mar.  1,  1819. 
iii.     Lydia,  b.  Jan.  31,  1773,  d.  Mar.  1,  1819. 

iv.     Joseph,  b.  1781,  d.  Savannah,  Ga.,  Oct.  4,  1818. 

V.      Elizabeth  Hart,  b.  1783,  d.  Apr.  20,  1846,  inherited  the  bulk  of  her 

father's  property, 
vi.     Benjamin,  b.  July  14,  1778,  d.  Oct  27,  1823. 

10.  Henry"  Jepson  {lf'iltlrim\  John-.  John')  b.  Feb.  5,  1738,  d. 
Mar.  3,  1816,  lived  mostly  in  New  London,  Conn.,  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Revolution.  He  m.  Jan.,  1769  Hannah  Dennison, 
who  d.  July  21,  1816,  a.  77  years. 

Children: 

i.       Hannah,  b.  Sept.  7,  1769,  m.  Pennington. 

ii.      Ann,  b.  Nov.  7,  1771,  d.  Nov.  1,  1821. 

20.  iii.     Henry,  b.  May  6,  1773. 
iv.     Daniel,  b.  Jan.  8,  1775. 


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V.      Margaret,  b.  Dec.  12,  1776. 

vi.     Esther,  b.  Sept.   17,   1799,  d.  July  28,   1846. 

vii.  John,  b.  Apr.  13,  1783,  d.  1882.  Was  m.  and  his  wife  d.  at  Princess 
Island,  near  Coast  of  Africa,  Jan.  21,  1822,  a.  37.  In  his  will, 
made  in  1820,  JOHS"  bequeathed  to  his  brother,  Henrv,  all  his 
wearing  apparel  and  two  hundred  dollars  in  money;  the  balance 
of  his  estate  to  be  equally  divided  between  his  three  sisters, 
Hannah  R.  Penniman,  Nancy  Jepson  and  Esther  Jepson,  his 
friend,  Thomas  Bradlee  of  Boston,  acting  as  executor. 


John*  Iepson  (Micah-\  John-.  Johri^)  b.  in  Hingham,  Mass., 
Apr.  11,  1754,  d.  in  Goshen,  Mass.,  July  7,  1830.  Moved  with 
his  parents  to  Chesterfield  in  1771,  the  portion  of  town  in  which 
he  lived  incorporated  as  Goshen  in  1781.  He  was  a  farmer. 
EKiring  the  Revolution  he  did  military  duty  at  various  times  and 
was  sent  to  reinforce  the  army  at  Bennington  and  Ticonderoga 
whenever  the  alarm  was  sent  across  the  country  that  help  was 
needed.  Also  served  in  New  London,  Conn.  Was  a  member  of 
Col.  Elisha  Porter's  regiment  which  left  Mass.  in  1776  to  rein- 
force Arnold's  army  at  Quebec.  This  army  left  in  January  and 
marched  away  through  snow  that  was  waist  deep.  The  enter- 
prise was  doomed  to  failure  and  the  soldiers,  facing  starvation, 
returned  home  with  greatly  diminished  numbers.  He  m.  Dec. 
18,  1777,  Eliz.abeth  or  Betsy  Le.ach,  b.  Feb.  22,  1754.  d. 
Oct.  15,  18.31.  LuCRETl.A,  an  adopted  dau.,  b.  Jan.,  1802,  m. 
Feb.  11,  1820,  Abiram  Phillips  of  Ashland. 

Children  all  born  in  Goshen  : 

Sally,  b.  Feb.  2,  1779,  m.  July  6,  1799,  Lot  Hall  of  Ashfield,  Mass. 

Lucretia,  b.  Jan.  15,  1781,  m.  Mathew  Keith,  Jan.  30,  1800  (L). 

21.  iii.     Forrest,  b.  Mar.  4,  1783. 

Iv.  &v.    Two  sons,  b.  Oct.  9,  1784,  d.  in  infancy. 

vi.     Betsy,  b.  Sept.  19,  1785,  m.  Samuel  Hall,  Jr.,  July  12,  1810. 
vii.    John,  b.  Aug.  5,  1787,  d.  about  1835. 

22.  viii.  Cyral,  b.  June  12,  1789. 

ix.     Tirza,  b.  Jan.  29,  1791,  m.  William  Hosford,  Sept.  19,  1791. 
X.     Marcia,  b.  May  22,  1793,  m.  Sept.  1810,  Caleb  Dodge  of  Litchfield, 
N.  Y. 


12.  Joseph'  Jepson  (Micalr.  John-.  John')  b.  in  Hingham  Apr.  25, 
1756,  d.  in  Goshen,  Mass.  Apr.  20,  1839.  Moved  to  Chester- 
field in  1771.  The  part  of  the  town  in  which  he  lived  was  in- 
corporated and  called  Goshen  in  1781.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
served  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution;  was  a  pensioner.  His  rec- 
cords  show  that  he  served  three  years.  His  description  states 
that  he  was  five  feet  five  inches  high,  complexion  light.  He  m.  in 
1780  Hannah,  dau.  of  Capt.  Robert  and  MolU  Webster.  She 
d.  June  14,  1843  (H). 


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Children: 

23.  i.       Webster,  b.  Oct.  25,  1781. 

i.     PoLLV,  m.  Benj.  Jones  of  Boston,  Mar.  23,  1803. 
iii.     Hannah,  m.  Newell. 

24.  iv.     Joseph,  b.  1784. 
V.     William. 

vi.     Benjamin,  d.  young. 

vii.  Theodocia,  b.  1797,  d.  Nov.  17,  1866,  m.  Luke  Babcock,  who  d.  Oct. 
27,  1870,  aged  77  years.  Lived  in  Winfield,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  Stephen  Van  Rensellaer.  2,  Ethan  Allen,  b.  1820,  d. 
March  28,  1876,  m.  Dorothy  ^— ,  who  d.  Jan.  27,  1893  a.  77. 
Ethan  owned  property  and  lived  in  Winfield.  3,  Judson,  who 
was  a  jeweler.     4,  DelVitt  Clinton,  b.  Apr.  26,   1827,  d.  Jan.  22, 

1895;   m.   Rosetta  ,  who   now   lives   in    Champaign,    111.       5. 

Erasmus  Darivin.  6,  Welcome  Lorenzo.  7,  Matheiv  Melvin,  who 
now  lives  in  St.  Paul,  Minn, 
viii.  &  ix.  Moses  and  Aaron,  twins,  b.  1800.  Moses  d.  young.  Aaron  d. 
Sept.  26,  1836.  He  lived  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he  kept  a 
general  store  on  the  corner  of  \\^alnut  and  Mill  Street.  He  m. 
Eliza  Hibbaro  of  Springfield.  She  m.  secondly,  in  1837,  Hor- 
ace Smith  of  Smith  and  Wesson,  gunsmiths,  and  had  one  son. 
Dexter. 

X.      Susannah,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Hannah,  b.  ,  d.  1846,  m.  Clark 

Babcock,  bro.  of  Luke,  who.  m.  Theodocia.  He  d.  Aug.  18, 
1828,  a.  66.  They  lived  in  Winfield,  New  York.  Children:  1, 
Clarissa,  m.  Morgan  and  lived  in  Eaton  Rapids,  Mich.  2,  Joseph 
lived  in  Utica,  New  York.  3,  A  daughter,  m.  Bartlett  of  Slab 
City,  New  York. 

13.  David*  Jepson  {Micah^,  John',  John^)  b.  in  Hingham  Sept.  5, 
1762,  lived  in  Chesterfield  and  Goshen,  Mass.  until  about  1784, 
and  d.  Pownal,  Viermont,  March  29,  1849.  He  served  more  than 
three  years  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  also  in  war  of  1812.  In 
the  descriptive  list  dated  Northampton,  1789,  of  men  detached 
from  Col.  Israel  Chapins  (2d  Hampshire  Co.)  he  is  said  to  be 
"seventeen  years  old,  stature  five  feet,  complexion  light."  He  m. 
Priscill.a  Batfs,  who  d.  July  13,  1845. 

Children  born  in  Pownal : 
i.       Micah,  b.  Nov.  16,  1786,  d.  1849,  m.  and  lived  in  Ohio,  but  records 

of  his  wife  and  children  have  not  been  found, 
ii.      Reuben,  b.  March  4,  1788,  d.  Pittstovvn,  New  York,  Jan.  15,  1814,  m. 

Served  in  the  war  of  1812  and  his  widow  was  a  pensioner  living 

in  Fulton  Co.,  New  York,  in  1850. 

25.  iii.     H.^rvey,  b.  Aug.  18,  1790. 

iv.     Abigail,  b.  Sept.  27,  1792,  m.   Capt.  Barnard  of    Bennington,    Ver- 
mont,  and   d.   at   Shaftsbury,   Vt. 
v.      Electa,  b.  July  16,  1794,  d.  Sept.  7,  1829. 

26.  vi.     David,  b.  Apr.  8,  1798. 

vii.    Sally,  b.  July  2,  1798,  m.  and  lived  in  Bennington,  Vermont. 

27.  viii.  James,  B.  June  3,  1800. 

28.  ix.     Benjamin,  b.  June  13,  1802. 
X.      Fanny,  b.  Dec  2,  1806. 


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29.  xi.     Lorenzo  Dow,  b.  Feb.  24,  1808. 

xii.  Betsy,  b.  Nov.  18,  1810,  m.  Sept.  7,  1831,  James  Camp.  Lived  in 
Pownal  and  looked  after  her  parents  in  their  last  vears  and  then 
moved  to  Peoria,  III.  Children :  I,  /'arm*-/,,).  Z,  Eliza.  I,  F.Urta. 
4  .Idaline.  5,  Dexter.  6,  EJgar.  7,  .V"nrtzv.  g  Charley  9 
.l,lol/i/ius. 

14.  S.A.MCKL^  Jei>son  (M,c,ih\  John-.  John')  b.  in  HiiiKham,  Mass 
July  19,  1767,  d.  in  Pownal,  X'ermont  about  1835.  Moved  with 
his  parents  to  ChesterHcld,  Mass.,  in  1771;  the  portion  of  the 
town  in  which  he  lived  beinj^  incorporated  under  the  name  of 
Goshen  in  1781.  He  lived  in  Goshen  until  about  1805,  when  he 
moved  to  Pownal,  \'ermont  and  bought  a  fartn  just  three  miles 
from  Williams  College  and  near  his  brother  D.avid.  The  neigh- 
borhood in  which  he  lived  was  called  White  Oaks.  The  U."s. 
census  of  1800  gives  his  residence  rs  Goshen,  Mass.,  males  undei^ 
ten  years  of  age,  three;  of  twenty-si.x  and  under  forty-two,  in- 
cluding heads  of  families,  one ;  one  female  under  ten  years  of  age, 
and  one  over  twentv-si.x— his  wife.  From  1800  to  1804,  inclus- 
ive, he  disposed  of  five  pieces  of  propertv  in  Goshen,  Chesterfield 
and  Pl.-infield.  He  m.  Dec.  19,  1790,  Bethia,  dau.  of  Luke 
Keith  (I),  a  Corporal  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  Martha, 
his  wife.  She  was  b.  in  1771  and  was  living  in  Pownal,  Vermont 
in  1849. 

Children,  b.  in  Goshen: 
30.  i.       Eli,  b.  Nov.   1793. 
3L  ii.      Luther,  b.  1794. 

32.  iii.     Sale.m. 

33.  iv.     Joel. 

v.     Hannah. 

vi.     Francis,  m.  May  29,  1825,  Betsey  Field:  no  children.     .Adopted  uirl 
named  Martha.     Lived  near  Woodstock,  III. 

34.  vii.    Tho.mas,  b.  Jan.  3,   1807.      . 


15. 


John-'  Jepsov  (John'.  lfillmm\  John-;  John')  b.  in  Boston 
.1760,  (bap.  Aug.  3),  wrs  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.  His  de- 
scnptKw  from  the  .Mrssachusetts  records  in  1780  is  as  follows: 
"John  Jki-son  of  Boston,  complexion  brown,  height  5  ft.,  7  in., 
twenty  years  old,  occupation,  gentleman  soldier."  In  179]  he 
hfHight  a  farm  in  Dover  and  resided  there  for  about  20  years  H- 
m.  .M.ARV  .MoRSK  of  Dover  March  20,  1786.  She  d  in  Wren- 
tham  June,  1825,  a.  70. 

Chililren  b.  in  Dover: 

i.       Marv  or  Polly,  b    1788.  d.  in  Ho„on,  .Apr.  25,  1827,  m.  Jan.es  Bli.n.v 

of   Medway,  Nov.   30,   1809.     He  d.   Deo.   5,    1834. 
ii.      John,  b.  Nov.  22,  1791. 


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16.  Lemuel  Cox''  Jepson  {John*,  ff'itluim'\  John'-,  John')  b.  in  Bos- 
ton 1762,  bap.  May  30,  d.  in  Palmyra,  Mo.,  subsequent  to  1830. 
Was  a  physician  and  probably  received  his  preliminary  instruction 
in  the  art  of  healing  in  Boston  and  Hartford,  Conn.  (See  page 
24).  He  may  have  been  an  assistant  or  student  of  the  noted 
Revolutionary  Surgeon,  D<r.  William  Jepson.  The  fact  that  he 
was  employed  to  post  the  books  of  the  deceased  surgeon  probably 
indicates  his  familiarity  with  the  business  affairs  of  the  decedent. 
By  some  of  his  descendants  he  is  known  by  the  name  of  Jesse 
and  he  may  have  been  called  bv  that  name,  which  wrs  the  name 
of  his  mother's  brother,  Jesse  Cox,  but  the  census  shows  that  his 
name  wfs  Lemuel  C.  and  that  he  was  living  in  Franklin,  Ky.  in 
1830.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  veteran  of  the  war  of  1812.  His 
signature  was  found  on  a  petition  to  the  So.  Carolina  legislature 
in  1789,  asking  that  a  military  company  be  established  to  prevent 
horse  theft  and  general  lawlessness  in  what  was  known  as  the 
Pee  Dee  District.  Under  the  caption  of  "The  Jepsons  of  the 
Border  States,"  Dr.  Jepson's  descendant.  Professor  Willis 
Linn  Jepson  has  furnished  a  biography  of  his  ancestor,  as  well 
as  of  several  members  of  his  line,  and  as  far  as  is  consistent  with 
the  plan  of  this  work,  this  is  given  verbatim: 

The  Jepsons  of  the  Border  States  of  Kentucky  and  Mis- 
souri are  all  descended  from  Lemuel  C.  Jepson  (Jesse  Jep- 
son) who  came  to  Kentucky  from  Tennessee  in  1806.  Although 
the  life  of  Lemuel  C.  Jepson  is  very  obscure,  he  appears  to  be 
the  strongest  and  most  extra-ordinary  figure  in  the  family.  The 
Cox  children  say  that  he  was  a  very  smart  man  and  that  they 
were  taught  as  children  to  be  very  proud  of  him.  The  writer 
was  brought  rs  a  child  to  revere  his  name.  Descendants  who 
scarcely  recognize  that  they  have  Jepson  blood  preserve  relics  of 
this  man.  •  He  was  a  physician  and  surgeon.  According  to  inde- 
pendent tradition  in  several  lines  of  the  family  and  which  is 
borne  out  by  relation  of  circumstances,  he  was  educated  in  Great 
Britain  and  married  there. 

Apparently  it  is  not  merely  family  partiality  which  judges 
him  as  an  unusual  type  of  physician  for  his  time  and  place.  He 
is  said  to  have  restored  a  boy's  nose  by  grafting  from  the  arm 
and  to  have  done  similar  things,  word  of  which  has  been  pre- 
served traditionally,  in  the  family.  Mrs.  William  L.  Jepson 
who,  as  a  girl,  saw  his  set  of  surgeon's  instruments,  says  that 
they  were  remarkable  for  that  time.  His  mortar,  in  which  he 
mixed  drugs,  is  now  the  prized  property  of  Mrs.  Hulett  San- 
ford  of  Memphis,  Mo. 

Hie  was  a  strong  pro-slavery  man,  but  recognized  the  dan- 
ger of  the  situation  for  the  couintry  and  predicted  the  Civil  War. 
Just  when  he  settled  in  Tennessee  is  not  known.     Probably  his 


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eldest  child,  Wilms,  horn  1793  in  North  Carolina,  was  really 
born  in  Tennessee,  which  became  a  state  in  1796,  before  that  be- 
ing considered  a  part  of  North  Carolina.  Benjamin,  his  third 
child,  w?s  born  in  Tennessee,  and  Rachel,  the  second  child,  said 
to  have  been  born  in  North  Carolina  or  South  Carolina,  may 
have  been  born  there  too.     (M) 

The  table  ware  of  that  day  was  either  pewter,  delft  or  sil- 
ver. Dr.  Tepson's  table  ware  being  silver,  he  took  it  to  Nash- 
ville and  sold  it,  with  the  proceeds  buying  the  farm,  the  old  Jep- 
son  homestead,  in  Simpson  Co.,  Kentucky,  which  is  still  owned 
bv  his  descendants. 

Lemuel  C.  (Jesse)  Jei>son  m.  twice:  First  wife,  maiden 
name  unknown,  was  b.  in  Great  Britain  and  died  on  the  ocean 
while  coming  to  America  (according  to  family  tradition).     Sec- 
ondly to  a  Miss  Hall.    Child  by  the  first  wife: 
i.       Patsey,  m.  William   Lemmon.     Children:   1,   Luanda,    b.    Sept.    3, 
1811,  in  Kenluckv,  d.  July   12,   1895,   in  Santa   Clara,   California. 

m.   first,  Meadow.     Children:   Margaret  .-Xnn,  m.  Worth- 

ington.  Six  children:  a,  .-//iVc,  b.  Nov.  14,  1856,  m.  S.  K.  Jack- 
son; home  Capisirano,  California,  b,  Luanda  Frances,  m.  Ray- 
ner.' Children:  Ray,  b.  Apr.  15,  1884;  Frank,  b.  Mar.  26,  1888,  and 
Harold,  b.  Julv  9,  1891.  c,  John  Brooks,  b.  Apr.  5,  1861,  m.  Edith 
Hollenbeck.  Children,  Inez,  b.  May  1,  1880;  Charles,  b.  1890; 
Margaret,  b.  May  8,  1896.  d,  Martha  Ellen,  b.  Dec.  1,  1862,  m. 
\V.  M.  McKee.  Children:  Alice,  b.  Oct.  12,  1865,  Charles,  Irma, 
Everett.  Mrs.  McKee  lives  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  e,  Mary 
IVillette.  m.  Jackson,     f,  Clare  Estelle. 

2.  Martha    Ann    Lemmnn,    b.     1824,    d.    January    28,     1827,   m.    John 

Jane,  m.  James  Simpson  and  had  John  Francis,  Charles  .Alex- 
ander, George  Lee,  Oliver  Sterling,  Margaret  Chaplain  and 
Hugh  Glenn,  b,  George  Washington,  m.  Mary  McCroskey. 
Child,  Lena  Alma,  c,  Charles  Nevi-ton,  m.  Adelia  Ottmer.  Chil- 
dren:'Mabel  Edna,  b.  Jan.  17,  1884;  Ethel  Ray,  b.  July  10,  1888 
and  Carl  Lloyd,  b.  .Aug.  6,  1891.  d,  John  James,  m.  Addie  Har- 
bin. 
Smith     Blazer,     b.     1827,     d.     Sept.     1896.       Children:    a,    Mary 

3.  Mary  Lennon,  m.  Blair.     No  children. 

4.  IVashington  Lemmon,  unm. 

5.  James  Lemmon,  m.  and  had   issue. 

6.  Lemuel  Lemmon. 

Children  by  second  wife: 
36.  ii.      Willis,  b.  Jan.  4,  1795. 

iil.  Rachel,  b.  Nov.  7,  1799,  in  North  or  South  Carolina,  d.  in  August, 
1873  or  July  20,  1874  at  .Memphis,  Missouri,  m.  Sept.  25,  1819,  A. 
J.  LovELL.  They  lived  at  Fountain  Head,  Tennessee,  about 
eighteen  miles  from  Dr.  Jepson's  farm  in  Kentucky.  She  is  said 
to  have  united  with  the  Methodist  Church  at  that  place.  They 
moved  to  Marion  Couny,  Missouri,  m.  1820.  Dr.  Jepson  went 
from  Simpson  Co.,  Kentucky  to  live  with  his  daughter  Rachel 
and  d.  in  Palmyra.  His  wife  was  a  little  later  taken  by  Rachel 
to  the  home  of  Willis  Jepson  in  Blue  Bottom,  Jackson  Co.,  Mo. 
She  lived  with  Willis  but  d.  at  the  home  of  Nancy  in  Blue  Bot- 


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torn  also,  whither  she  had  gone  on  a  visit.  Apparently  she  did 
not  long  outlive  the  Doctor.  Rachel  Jepson  Lovell's  descendents 
are  fairly  numerous  and  reside  mostly  in  Missouri.  Rachel 
seems  to  have  been  a  remarkable  woman.  Her  grandchildren 
speak  of  her  in  the  warmest  and  most  reverent  terms  and  un- 
doubtedly her  memory  deserves  to  be  kept  green  by  virtue  of  her 
great  kindliness,  charity  and  sympathy.  An  oil  portrait  is  in  the 
possession  of  her  grandchild,  Mrs.  Mary  Lemuel  Work,  Living- 
stone, Montana.      (See  cut.) 

Children  : 

1.  S.ARAH  Ann,  b.   Marion  Co.,   Mo.,  July  15,   1820,   d.  in    Adams    Co., 

III.,  m.  L.ii  WHENCE  Hadley.  Children:  a,  Elvira,  b.  Adams 
County,  III.,  d.  at  Quincy,  111.,  m.  Thomas  Ralph.  No  issue,  b, 
Gideon,  b.  in  Adams  Co.,  111.  Killed  in  I'nion  Army,  1862.  c, 
Levi,  b.  Adams  County,  111.     d.  Marietta,  b.  Adams  County,  III. 

2.  LuciNDA,  b.  Marion  County,  Mo.  Feb.  22,  1822,  d.  at  Memphis,  Mo. 

m.  First,  Stewart  Justice.  Children:  a,  Nancy,  b.  in  Adams 
County,  Illinois,  still  living  (1916).  m.  James  Ralph  who  d.  b, 
David  Justice,  b.  in  Adams  County,  Illinois,  Mar.  3,  1841,  still 
living  (1916)  m.  Hannah  Dean.  Child:  Armenta  Dean,  who  m. 
Jerry  Daly,  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.  c,  John  Justice,  h.  in  Adams  Co., 
111.  m.  Rose  White;  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl,  wife  d.  d, 
Andrew  Justice,  b.  in  Memphis,  Mo.,  d.  in  Memphis,  unm.  Lu- 
ciNDA  m.  secondly,  James  H.  Clemmens.  Children:  e  Susan 
Clemens,  b.  in  Memphis,  Mo.  m.  Hulett  Sanford  and  had  several 
children,  some  m.  f,  Rachel,  b.  Scotland  Co.,  Mo.,  m.  William 
H.  Blake,  and  had  one  child,  Harry,  who  is  a  resident  of  Okla- 
homa. She  is  now  a  widow,  g,  James  Clemens,  b.  Memphis, 
Mo.,  d.  same  place  at  a.  of  10.  i,  Mary  Clemens,  b.  Memhis,  Mo., 
d.  same  place  a.  12.  j,  Elizabeth  Clemens,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  m. 
William  Abbott.  No  children,  d.  Quincy,  111.  k,  Harriett  An- 
geline  Clemens,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  d.  Keokuk,  la.  m.  John  Egley 
and  had  three  children. 

She  m  secondly  .     1,  Savilla  Clemens,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.  m. 

first   Henry   Palmer,    (Called    Henry    White),   now    dead.        Has 

two  sons;   home   Kansas   City,   Mo.     She  married   secondly  . 

m,  Minnie  Clemens,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  m.  Harry  Darmer,  two 
children;    home,   Capser,   Wyo. 

3.  Alfred  Moore  Lovell,  b.  at  Marion   City,   Mo.,  April   17,   1824,  d. 

about  1896  at  Walla  Walla,  Washngton.  m  first  Cr.^ddic. 

Secondly,  Martha  Clemens.     No  children.     One  adopted  son. 

4.  Marguerite  Jane  Lovell,  b.  Marion  City,  Mo.  Apr.  26,  1826,  d.  unm. 

5.  CoLSON   Lafayette   Lovell,   nickname   Hazel,   b.   Marion   City   Mo., 

April   26,   1826,  d.   Memphis,   Mo.,   unm. 

6.  Francis  Marion  Lovell,  called    "Jack,"  b.    at    Marion    City,    Mo. 

Nov.  15,  1838,  d.  at  Memphis,  Mo.,  m.  Sara  Osborn.  Children: 
a,  Charles  Lovell,  b.  Whitehall,  III.  Unm.,  lives  with  his 
mother.  b,  Albert  Morey  Lovell,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  m.  d.  c, 
Louie  M.  Lovell,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  m.  d. 

7.  Martha  Lovell,  b.  in  Marion  City   (Palmyra)   Mo.,  Dec.  28,   1832, 

d.  Nov.  3,  1881,  at  Memphis,  Mo.,  m.  Colwell  C.  Cox,  b.  Staun- 
ton, Va.,  raised  at  Ganley  Bridge,  W.  Va.  Children:  a,  W.  A. 
Cox,  b.  Memphis,  Mo.,  Sept.  27,  1850,  m.  Sept.  28,  1874,  at  Mem- 
phis, Mo.  to  Sonora  Vernecia  Cody,  b.  Jan.  1856  at  Memphis; 
children:  1,  Charles  Cox,  b.  Aug.  26,   1876  at  Memphis,  Mo.;   m. 


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Feb.  24,  1900  at  N.  Yakima,  Wvo.  to  Johamie  Ley  and  had:  Wil- 
liam Ley  Cox,  h.  Nov.  11,  1901,  at  N.  Yakima,  lievevieve  Myrtle 
Cox,  b.  Sept.  18,  1903  at  N.  Yakima,  and  George  Ley  Cox,  b. 
April  2,  1916,  at  Sedro,  Wooley,  Wn.  2,  Hugh  Cox,  b.  April  12, 
1878,  at  Memphis,  Mo.  d.  Sept.  20,  1882.     3,  Vernecia  Cox,  b.  Oct. 

11,  1880,  at  Memphis,  Mo.  m.  May  20,  1908  to  Daniel  Fry  at  N. 
Yakima.  4,  Cody  Colwell  Cox,  b.  Feb.  23,  1885,  at  Memphis, 
Mo.  5,  Sonera  Cox,  b.  Apr.  30,  1888,  at  N.  Yakima,  Wash.,  m. 
Nov.  30,  1910  at  same  place  to  Reynold  Ferdinand  Melin;  one 
child,  Senori  Jane  Melin,  b.  Aug.  20,  1911,  at  Portland,  Oregon, 
b,  I'irginia  Belle  Cox,  unm.  c,  George  Avener  Cox,  m.  first, 
Maggie  Pearv  and  had  daughter  and  son;  m.  secondly,  Margaret 

Rule;  had  two  sons;  m.  thirdly .     No  issue.     First 

and  third  now  deceased,  d,  Mary  Lemuel  Cox,  m.  June  2nd,  1881, 
to  Zachary  T.  Work,  b.  Aug.  1,  1848  at  Memphis,  Mo.  Children: 
Alice  Ray  Work,  b.  Aug.  12,  1887,  at  Livingstone,  Mont.  m.  Oct. 

12,  1913  to  Oscar  Merene  at  Bozeman,  Mont,  and  John  Franklin 
Work,  b.  Oct.  10,  1891  at  Livingstone,  Mont.,  unm.  8,  Elviree 
LoTell.  b.  Marion  City,  Mo.  Nov.  6,  1831  d.  at  Quincy,  111.  9, 
Mary  Lemuel  Lovell,  b.  Mar.  4,  1836. 

37.  iv.     Benjamin,  b.  Dec.  8,  1800. 

V.      Jesse,  b.  d.  about  1835  in  Jackson  Co.,  Mo. 

vi.  N.\NCY,  b.  about  1808  in  Simpson  County,  Kentucky,  d.  May,  1850,  in 
Blue  Bottom,  Jackson  Co.,  Mo.,  m.  in  Kentucky  to  Joseph  Kirk, 
b.  1800,  d.  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  May  10,  1848.  Children:  1,  An- 
toinette Kirk,  b.  Mav  25,  1830,  d.  Jan.  6,  1900;  unm.  2,  U'ilton 
Kirk.  d.  voung.  3,  George  Kirk.  b.  May  8,  1836,  d.  about  1874.  4, 
Mary  Ann  Kirk.  b.  Nov.  1,  1839,  m.  Jan.  13,  1859.  Thomas 
Evans  and  lives  in  Memphis,  Mo.  Children:  a,  Davis  Romeo 
Evans,  b.  Nov.  22,  1859,  m.  Aug.  24,  1892,  Sophie  Jackson  Henry, 
three  children:  a.  Nelson  Vaughan  Evans,  b.  Aug.  3,  1893,  Hazel 
Vaughan  Evans,  b.  Jan.  11,  1895,  and  Ruby  Vaughan  Evans,  b. 
Dec.  15,  1897.  b,  Ada  J.  Evans,  b.  Jan.  22,  1862,  m.  Jan,  20, 
1892,  W.  J.  Calloway;  four  children;  Harry  E.,  b.  Jan.  31,  1893, 
Mary  Jane,  b.  June  30,  1894,  Elizabeth  Clare,  b.  Mar.  15,  1896 
and  Wilhelmina,  b.  Jan.  6,  1901.  Mrs.  W.  J.  Calloway  lives  in 
San  Diego,  Calif,  c,  Nettie  Evans,  b.  Dec.  29,  1863,  ra.  Oct.  23, 
1890,  Dr.  O.  F.  Pile.  Children:  Marguerite  Kirk  Pile,  b.  Aug, 
7,  1891,  Bengie  Helene  Pile,  b.  May  21,  1895,  and  Roger  Pile,  b. 
Jan.  19,  1897.  Mrs.  Pile  lives  in  San  Diego,  California,  d.  Mat- 
tie  Evans,  b.  May  6,  1878,  m.  16  1900,  J.  R.  Clarkson.  Chil- 
dren: Frank  Melvin,  b.  Aug.  13,  1901,  George  Evans,  b.  June  11, 
1905,  Thomas  Arthur,  b.  Feb.  13,  1908  and  Josephine  Clarkson, 
b.  Sept.  22,  1911.  Mrs.  Clarkson  resides  in  Memphis,  Mo.  5, 
John  Kirk,  b.  Feb.  11,  1842,  d.  Dec  27,  1842.  6,  James  Kirk,  b. 
Apr.  27,  1845,  d.  June,  1845.  7,  Joseph  Kirk,  b.  Mar.  9,  1848,  d. 
May  12,  1848. 

38.  vii.    Le.muei.,  b.  about  1810. 

viii.  LUCINPA,  b.  in  Simpson  County,  Ky,  d.  in  Jnrkson  Co.,  Mn.,  m. 
James  Dinnino.     Had  one  son,  William  and  two  daughters. 

17.  Benja.min"  Jki'SON  (John',  li'illiam',  John-,  Jolin^)  b.  in  Bos- 
ton, Nov  17,  1766,  d.  in  Columbus,  Georgia,  Oct.  18,  182Q. 
Was  a  tailor.  He  moved  South  at  an  earl\-  dare,  settlinfj;  first  in 
Greensboro,  Georjjia,  the  records  showing  that  he  liouglu  land  "t 


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the  University  of  Georgia,  in  1805,  and  later  one  hundred  acres 
which  he  sold  in  1820  for  one  thousand  dollars.  He  m.  May  1 1, 
1795,  Esther  Walker,  who  was  b.  Sept.,  1776,  and  d.  1852. 

Children : 

Lemuel,   b,  Aug.  27,   1796. 

i.      John,  b.  Mar.  2,  1798. 

ii.     Sus.ANNAH,  b.  Sept.  22,  1799,  d.  May  31,  1872. 

V.     Sophia,  b.  May  31,  1801. 

■.      Benjamin,  b.  May  30,  1803,  did  not  marry. 

■i.     Thomas,  b.  April  8,  1805,  d.  Aug.  16,  1845.     He  had  two  daughters. 

•ii.    Robert  Martin,  b.  March  2,  1808,  d.  March  19,  1810. 

iii.  Julia,  b.  Jan.  9,  1810,  d.  Feb.  14,  1810. 

X.     Frances  Asbury,  b.  Sept.  14,  1811,  d.  Jan.  21,  1881,  unm. 

.  William  M.  Kindice,  b.  Sept.  14,  1811,  d.  May  31,  1871,  m.  Synthia 
.     She  d.  1870,  no  children. 

i.  Joseph,  b.  Oct.  31,  1814,  d.  Jan.  7,  1888,  m.  Feb.  16,  1864,  Miss  E.  J. 
Patrick,  b.  June  4,  1828,  d.  Nov.  17,  1904.  Children:  1,  Mary 
Esther,  b.  Jan.  27,  1865,  m.  Columbus,  Ga.,  Dec.  27,  1889,  E.  W. 
Jenkins,  b.  Nov.  3,  1859,  d.  May  22,  1915.  Children:  1,  Julia 
Belle,  b.  Aug.  15,  1896.  2,  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  May  1,  1899.  3, 
Cecil  Bertram,  b.  Aug.  7,  1904.  ii,  Sarah  Catherine,  b.  Jan.  5, 
1867,  m.  Dec.  11,  1882,  Augustus  Peyton  Thomas,  b.  Jan.  11,  1859. 
They  live  in  Columbus,  Georgia,  vVhere  Mr.  Thomas  is  the  head 
of  the  firm  of  the  A.  P.  Thomas  Drug  Co.  Children:  1,  Anna 
Pearl,  b.  Sept.  29,  1884,  m.  April  17,  1907,  Hugh  M.  Bagley;  two 
children,  Hugh  M.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1915,  and  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  20 
1916.  2,  Eddie  Mae,  b.  July  13,  1886,  m.  Aug.  30,  1908,  James 
L.  Drake.  One  child,  Eugene  Milton  Drake,  b.  Nov.  23,  1915 
3,  Joseph  Augustus,  b.  May  19,  1888.  4,  Sarah  Louise,  b.  July  16, 
1890.  5,  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  4,  1892,  m.  Dec.  24,  1913,  J.  Wal 
ter  Webb,  one  daughter,  Katherine  Louise,  b.  July  22,  1916.  6 
Robert  Jepson,  b.  Jan.  22,  1895.  7,  Franklin  Peyton,  b.  June  30 
1897,  d.  same  date.  8,  George  Watts,  b.  Feb.  8,  1899,  d.  July  14, 
1899.  9,  Harold  Vivian,  b.  March  28,  1900.  10,  Andrew  Gor 
don,  b.  Dec.  6,  1905,  d.  May  10,  1906. 


18.  Samuei/  Jepson  (Samuel*,  William^,  John},  John^)  b.  in  Bos- 
ton, i4ug.  25,  1769,  d.  in  N'swton,  Mass.,  July,  1853.  M. 
Dec.  28,  1804,  Abigail  Gushing,  who  d.  July  14,  1845.  Owned 
a  farm  near  Newton,  the  cultivation  of  which  he  supervised 
merely.  He  wrote  his  name  Jephson,  which  he  considered  the 
correct  way.  He  w?s  a  tall,  dignified  gentleman  of  the  old 
school,  a  great  lover  of  music.     He  paid  a  long  visit  to  England. 

Children : 

Henry  C,  was  living  in  Newton  in   1875. 
William,  d.  1822. 

Caroline,  d.  Mar.  8,  1881,  in  Newton. 
Charles,  d.  Aug.  13,  1875,  in  Newton. 
Abby,  d.  young. 

Ellen,  m.  ReV.  Alvah  G.  Dunning,  a  Presbyterian  minister  who  d. 
at  Perth,  Amoboy,  New  Jersey,  Mar.  7,  1894.     She  d.  soon  after. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


They  had  two  children,  Henry  and  Susan,  who  m.  Power 

and  was  a  well  known  author,  writing  under  the  pseudonym  of 
"Shirley   Dare." 

19.  WiLLi.AM'  Jepsox  (S(unuil\  If'illiti/ii'.  John-.  John^)  b.  Oct.  20, 
1770,  d.  Nov.  11,  1820,  was  a  house  wright.  Was  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  and  Honorahle  Artilkry  Co.,  of  which  Co.  he  was 
sergeant  in  1801  and  ensign  in  1806.  Resided  in  Temple  Street. 
(See  introduction  pasre  20).  He  m.  M.ary  Call,  b.  March  3, 
1774;  d.  June  10,  1862. 

Children: 

i.       Elizabeth  Green,  b.  June  10,  1798,  d.  Feb.  4,  1825. 

ii.  Nathaniel  Call,  b.  Feb.  8,  1800,  d.  Oct.  3,  1802. 

iii.  Mary  Ann,  b.  June  30,  1801,  d.  Jan.  16,  1844,  m.  March  30,  1826, 
SouTHWORTH  BRYANT,  who  d.  Jan.  16,  1844.  Children:  1,  South- 
<u.orl/t,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  2,  Annie,  now  deceased. 
3,  Lizzie  M.  Henry  Hall  of  Seattle  and  resides  there.  4,  Nellie, 
d.  voung. 

iv.  Lydia'Callender,  b.  Jan.  3,  1803,  d.  July  10,  1846,  m.  Victor  Blaire. 
Children.  1,  LyJia,  m.  X.  Chamberlain,  three  daughters.  2, 
Mary,  m.  S.   Allen,  no  children.     3,  Victor,  now   deceased. 

V.      William,  b.  July  31,  1804,  d.  Sept.  24,  1805. 

40.  vi.     WiLLiA.vi,  b.  Aug.  28,  1806. 

41.  vii.    Sa.muel,   b.  Nov.  22,   1808. 

viii.  Nathaniel  Call,  b.  Oct.  19,  1810,  d.  18+4. 
41.  ix.      Joseph  Buck.viinster,  b.  March  5,  1813. 

X.      Charles  Lowell,  b.  Sept.   16,  1815,  d.  young. 

xi.  Sarah  Bush,  b.  Aug.  29,  1817,  d.  July  2,  1896,  m.  June  9,  1841,  Jos- 
eph Chipman,  who  d.  July  26,  1864.  CKMren:  \,  Sarah  Frances, 
b.  Oct.  26,  1842,  m.  John  Linfield,  has  three  children:  Emma, 
Chas.  A.  and  Albert  P.  2,  Joseph  Albert,  b.  Sept.  10,  1844,  d. 
Jan..  14,  1877,  m.  May  13,  1872  Alice  M.  Dodge.  3  and  4, 
Phoebe  and  Mary  IVinsloiu,  twins  b.  July  2,  1853,  d.  young.  5, 
Henrietta  M.,  b.  May  10,  1850,  m.  Warren  Fletcher,  5  children: 
Warren  A.,  b.  Dec.  26,  1874,  d.  young;  Mabel  Abbie,  b.  Nov.  17, 
1884;  Freddie  Warren,  b.  Nov.  3,  1885;  Edna  Frances,  b.  Jan. 
29,   1880;   Laura,  b.  May  8,  1883. 

20.  HenrV'  Jepson  (Htnry\  fi^iHiam\  John-.  John')  b.  May  6, 
1773,  probably  in  New  London,  Conn.,  d.  at  sea  May  18,  1848, 
probably  living  in  Boston  in  1790,  although  he  spent  most  of  his 
life  in  New  London.  Several  of  his  descendants  probably  lived 
in  New  London  until  a  comparatively  recent  date  and  one  fam- 
ily of  Jepsors  is  said  to  have  occupied  the  hous.s  called  the  "Old 
Huguenot  House."  The  family  is  said  to  have  removed  to  St. 
Louis  vears  ago  and  cannot  now,  be  found.  He  m.  May  14, 
'  1797,  H.AXNAH,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Hannah  Holt,  b.  in  New 
London  Feb.  3,  1776. 

Children: 
i.       Eliza,  b.  Feb.  12,  1798. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


ii.  Julia  Ann,  b.  Aug.  29,  1799. 

iii.  Pattv  Douglas,  b.  Feb.  28,  1801. 

iv.  Charles  Henry,  b.  July  15,  1803. 

V.  Marv,  b.  July  7,   1805. 

vi.  Margaret,  b.  May  26,  1808. 

21.      Forrest'"'  Jepson    (John*,  Micah'\  Jolnr.  John')     b.    March    4, 
1783,  at  Goshen,  Mass.,  d.  Sept.  20,   1844  at  Ashfield,  Mass. 
Was  a  farmer.  He  m.  July  27,  1809  Esther,  dau.  of  Geo.  Ran- 
ney  and  descended  from  Thomas  Ranney  of  Middletown,  Conn., 
b.  March  5,  1784,  and  d.  Aug.  23,  1862  at  Northampton,  Mass. 
Children : 
i.       Marcia,   b.  July   7,   1810,   at  Ashfield,  Mass.,   d.   March   15,    1897,  m. 
Jan.  29,   1833,  Jefferson  Leach,  who  was  b.  Apr.  10,   1810;   d. 
July   10,   1870.       Children:   1,  Mary  Esther,  b.   Dec.   31,   1833,   d. 
Feb.  3,  1915.     2,  Forrest,  b.  June  4,  1835  in  Brattleboro,  Vermont, 
d.  June  27,   1897.     3,   Clarissa,  b.  July   16,   1836,  d.   May   1,   1838. 
4,  Lorenzo,  b.  July  17,  1838,  d  young.     5,  Lorenzo,  b.  Sept.  4,  1840. 
6,  Ctarrissa,  b.  July  24,  1842.     7,  Emily  M.,  b.  Apr.   12,   1844,   d. 
Oct.  12,  1844.     8,  Elliott  J.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1845,  d.  in  Amherst,  April 
15,  1901.     9,  Everett  E.,  b.  Sept.  25,  1847,  d.  in  Chicago,  111.,  June 
25,   1911. 
ii.      Esther,  b.  Jan.  13,  1812,  at  Ashfield,  d.  at  Goshen,  Mass.,  May  18, 
1860,   m.  James  C.  Pearl.     Children:   1,  Emily,  b.   1845,  m.  Jen- 
kins.    2,   George.     3,  Frank,  b.  July  10,   1849,  d.  in   Belchertown, 
July  12,  1872. 
iii.  Forrest,   b.   Aug.  22,   1813,   d.   Oct.   15,   1873,   at   Northampton,   Mass., 
m.  Emily  Thurston  who  d.  at  Goshen,  Mass.,  July  23,  1847,  a. 
32.     No  children. 

43.  iv.     Orren,  b.  Feb.  25,  1815. 

V.  Julia,  b.  May  25,  1817,  d.  Oct.  22,  1882,  m.  Sept.  28,  1847  at  Ash- 
field, Mass.,  Jesse  Morse,  b.  Nov.  6,  1805,  d.  Apr.  14,  1898. 
Child:   1,  Hatlie,  b.  July  20,   1855. 

44.  vi.     George  R.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1819. 

vii.  Calista,  b.  Aug.  16,  1821,  at  Ashfield,  Mass.,  d.  Oct.  7,  1877,  at 
Springfield,  Mass.,  m.  Feb.  10,  1846,  Leonard  H.  Blanden.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  Charles  Henry,  b.  Sept.  13,  1851,  d.  same  date.  2,  Lucie 
Marietta,  b.  Dec.  12,  1852,  at  Northampton,  m.  July  16,  1877,  at 
Springfield,  Edmund  A.  Elliott.  Is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church.  Eastern  Star,  Daughters  of  Rebekka  and  Loyal  Ladies. 
Child:  Inez  Cuba,  b.  April  25,  1886,  at  Springfield, 
m.  Chester  Ira  Bailey,  October  27,  1909.  Child: 
Thelma  Alberta,  b.  March  19,  1911.  3,  George  Herbert, 
b.  Dec.  6,  1854,  Springfield,  Mass.,  is  a  member  of  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Springfield,  Mass.  He  resides  in  North  \AT1- 
braham.  4,  Clara  Isabella,  b.  Nov.  29,  1856,  at  Northampton, 
d.  at  Springfield,  Dec.  19,  1913.  M.  Feb.  15,  1899  at  Springfield, 
Elmer  Davis,  no  children,  was  member  of  M.  E.  Church  and 
Eastern  Star.  5,  Henry  Herchal.  b.  Oct.  19,  1858,  at  Northamp- 
ton, m.  Nov.  8,  1887  at  Springfield,  Oara  E.  Davis.  She  d.  Nov. 
14,  1910.     Henry  Herchal  is  a  member  of  Ashbury  M.  E.  Church. 

viii.  Betsey  M.,  b.  April  9,  1823,  d.  Oct.  5,  1860,  m.  John  T.  Thurston, 
b.  Jan.  11,  1818,  d.  May  21,  1867.  Children:  1,  John  E.,  b.  Nov, 
18,  1850.  2,  Cora  F.,  b.  Julv  21,  1857.  3,  John  A'.,  b.  April  4, 
•     1860. 


CVRAL  JIPEON 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


ix.  Mary  F.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1824,  d.  Dec.  30,  1884,  m,  Oct.  11,  1848,  Warren 
E.  Landon,  who  d.  Jan.  27,  I9I3.  Children:  1,  Sarah  H.,  b.  July 
3,  1849.  2,  Frank  JC,  b.  Aug.  27,  1852.  3,  Jo/iri  £.,  b.  Sept.  3, 
1854.  4,  .-llice  M.,  b.  Dec.  7,  1855.  5,  FreJ  llnuani,  b.  Oct.  15, 
1858.  6,  Diri/jht  J.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1861.  7,  Grace  Esther,  b.  July  12, 
1862.  8,  Etta  J.,  b.  Sept.  16,  1863.  9,  EJgiir  Forest,  b.  April  9, 
1866.     10,  Bertha  C  b.  Nov.   13,   1868. 

X.  DvvicHT  S.,  b.  Nov.  16,  1826,  d.  March  16,  1896,  m.  Jan.  1,  1860, 
Hannah  P.  Lv.man  ;  no  children. 

xi.  LUCRETIA,  b.  Jan.  25,  d.  Sept.  21,  1917,  m.  at  Belchertown,  as  his  sec- 
ond  wife,  John  T.  Thurson,  who  d.   May   21,   1867. 

CVR.AU"'  Jll'iON  (Jolin\  Micah'\  John-,  John').  (Note  change  of 
spelling  of  name  adopted  by  him  and  his  descendants),  b.  in 
Goshen,  Mass.,  June  12,  1789,  d.  Monroe  Co.,  Michigan,  Apr. 
10.  18b0.  Was  captain  of  the  Goshen  Military  Company  for  a 
time.  Was  a  man  of  powerful  physique  and  great  physical  en- 
durance ;nid  a  farmer  by  occupation.  About  1820  he  emigrated 
to  Winfield,  New  York,  but  returned  to  Goshen  in  1828,  to  care 
for  his  parents  in  their  declining  years.  In  1835  moved  to  Niag- 
ara County,  Niew  York,  where  he  remained  until  1852,  when  he 
inoved  to  Mooreville,  Monroe  County,  Michigan.  He  m.  June 
7,  1814,  Phoebe,  dau.  of  Seth  Sears  of  Cape  Cod,  b.  Feb.  14, 
1798,  d.  1860. 

Children: 

i.       A  son  b.   March  20,   1815,   d.  same   date. 

ii.  Betsey,  b.  March  24,  1816,  in  Goshen,  d.  Coomer  Road,  N.  Y.  Nov. 
28,  1893,  m.  1840  Clark  Tr.'^cev,  b.  March  17,  1806,  d.  April  17, 
1864.  Settled  first  in  Lockport;  at  a  later  date  Coomer.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  .Ingeline  Julia,  b.  Sept.  15,  1841,  m.  Francis  Lorenzo 
Anderson,  Dec.  1,  1861.  Children:  a,  Chas.  Elmer,  b.  Sept.  3, 
1862.  b,  Carrie  Elizabeth,  b.  July  12,  1864.  c.  Prudence  Eme- 
line,  b.  Sept.  22,  1866.  d,  Eva  Electa,  b.  Aug.  17,  1869,  d.  March 
10,  1874.  e.  Bertha  May,  b.  Aug.  25,  1872.  f,  Frankie,  b.  Sept. 
26,  1874,  d.  Feb.,  1880.  g,  Ina  Amela,  b.  Jan.  1,  1881.  2,  .'llice 
.■Irnelia,  b.  March  27,  1847,  d.  June  2,  1887,  m.  March  27,  1867, 
Edwin  Ozard.  Children:  a,  Robt.  C,  b.  July  18,  1868,  d.  Feb. 
3,  1875.  b,  Jennie,  b.  Jan.  18,  1872.  3,  Mary  Jane,  b.  Feb.  1, 
1843,  d.  1843.  4,  Clark  Cyral,  b.  March  10,  1846,  d.  1851.  5, 
Chas.  EdiiAn,  b.  Jan.  14,  1856,  d.  1915.  Was  postmaster  in  New- 
fane  for  many  years,  m.  May  28,  1881,  Eli  zabeth  Shea.  Children: 
a,  Frances  Ethel,  b.  March  10,  1882.  b,  Janette  Angeline,  b.  Jan. 
1,  1884.  c,  Ruie  May,  b,  Aug.  26,  1886.  d,  Charles  Wilber,  b. 
July  28,  1889.     e,  Lester  Edwin,  b.  June  1,  1891. 

iii.     Seth  Sears,  b.  July  19,  1818,  d.  Mtarch  25,  1820. 

iv.  Phebe  Harden,  b.  Dec.  8,  1820,  m.  1838,  Samuel  Dickerman,  b. 
Sept.  15,  1809.  Children:  1,  Olive,  b.  April  23,  1839,  m.  Mr. 
Wood,  had  one  son  Jay,  b.   May   14,  1826.     2,  Isaiah,  b.   May  6, 

jg42,  d.  ;  m.  Feb.   19,   1902;   had   no  children.     3,   Louisa,  b. 

Jan.  22,  1844,  m.  Mr.  Aldrich,  had  one  son  Arthur,  b.  Nov.  16, 
1864.     4,  Oliver,  b.  July  3,  1842,  m.,  had  four  children. 
5.  V.     Seth  Sears,  b.  April  I,  1823. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


.  vi.  Samuel  Fayette,  b.  Aug.  6,  1825. 
vii.  Hepsibeth  Hurd,  b.  April  11,  1828,  d.  in  Michigan,  March  2,  1877, 
m.  July  1,  1865,  Jacob  Ferman,  who  d.  in  1865.  Children:  1, 
Mary  Ann,  b.  Sept.  23,  1846,  m.  Aug.  25,  1867.  2,  Cyral  L.,  b, 
Aug.  7,  1848,  m.  Edna  L.  Draper,  Oct.  8,  1873;  has  one  son 
Myron  A.,  b.  Nov.  27,  1875.  Lives  in  Milan,  Michigan.  3,  John 
H.,  b.  April  15,  1850,  d.  March  24,  1896,  and  had  four  sons  and 
three  daughters.  4,  Clark  F.,  b.  July  18,  1852.  5,  Jacob,  b.  July 
8,  1854,  m.  Emma  Draper,  had  eleven  children.  6,  Samuel  S.,  b. 
Nov.  14,  1856,  m.  Jenny  Hull,  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  7, 
James  E.  P.,  b.  Feb.  17,  1856,  m.  Dec.  24,  1879,  Alice  Throop,  had 
nine  children,  now  resides  in  Clinton,  Michigan.  8,  Phebe  Ann, 
b.  Sept.  8,  1861,  m.  Feb.  22,  1885,  Frank  Tolesan,  had  three  sons 
and  one  daughter.    9,  Charles  E.,  b.  Aug.  30.  1863,  d.  April,  1877. 

viii.  John  Sears,  b.  Apr.  22,  1831,  d.  March,  1864.  Enlisted  in 
Co.  K,  First  Michigan  Cavalry  in  1861.  Took  part  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Charlestown,  Middletown,  Piedmont  and  Win- 
chester. In  the  last  named  battle,  his  hat  was  shot  from 
his  head  and  he  was  exposed  to  a  snowstorm  which  lasted 
all  day  and  all  night.  The  exposure  brought  on  a  severe 
cold  which  terminated  in  tuberculosis  and  eventually  in  his 
death.  He  was  discharged  from  the  army  Dec.  14,  1862, 
but  owing  to  difficulty  of  transportation  did  not  reach 
home  until  the  following  September. 

ix.  Cyral,  b.  Sept.  4,  1833,  in  Goshen,  Mass.,  d.  in  Mooreville,  Michi- 
gan, Feb.  25,  1855. 

X.  Clark  Franklin,  b.  July  7,  1836,  d.  July  4,  1857,  Mooreville,  Michi- 
gan. 

xi.  Sarah  Hortensia,  b.  April  21,  1839,  d.  March  7,  1870,  in  Moore- 
ville, Michigan.  M.  Oct.  17,  1855,  John  McBride,  b.  in  Syracuse, 
New  York,  July  7,  1831,  d.  in  Milan,  Michigan.  Children:  1, 
Ella  Mertilla,  b.  July  31,  1856,  d.  young.  2,  Ella  Mermlla,  b. 
March  12,  1858,  d.  young.  3,  Rollo  Henry,  h.  Jan.  15,  1859,  is 
engaged  in  the  work  of  caring  for  and  endeavoring  to  start  on 
the  right  road  the  criminals  who  have  been  discharged  from 
penal  institutions  and  who  from  force  of  necessity  usually  start 
again  on  the  downward  path.  His  problem  is  the  one  of  employ- 
ment and  caring  for  the  men  until  employment  can  be  secured. 
The  "Parting  of  the  Ways"  Home  in  Chicago  was  under  his 
management  for  several  years  and  his  work  met  with  consider- 
able success.  He  is  now  engaged  in  similar  work  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  handling  men  from  work  house  and  penitentiary,  and  by 
those  who  have  witnessed  his  methods,  he  is  said  to  be  unusually 
gifted  in  his  line  of  work.  He  m.  Aug.  1884,  in  Dundee,  Michi- 
gan, Menta  Woodward,  who  d.  Dec.  10,  1889.  ^By  her  he  had 
one  daughter.  Nana,  b.  May  18,  1886  who  m.  Jay  Frank  of  Toledo, 
Ohio.  He  m.  secondly  Lottie  E.  King,  Sept.  4,  1908,  and  by  her 
had  two  sons:  John  Russell,  b.  July  21,  1909,  and  Donald  Harry, 
b.  Oct.  11,  1911.  4,  Clara  Lillian,  b.  May  22,  1860,  d  young.  5, 
Lyman  Harry,  b.  Nov.  6,  1863,  d.  young.  6,  Martha  Maria,  b. 
Sept.  10,  1865,  d.  young.  7,  Flora  Dell,  b.  March  28,  1867,  m.  A. 
W,  Hurd,  had  one  son  Lysle,  b.  1895,  m.  secondly  Julius  Wtyher, 
had  one  son  b.  1907.     8,  Ne-vadah,  b.  May,  1869,  d.  May  10,  1908, 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


m.  May,  1901,  Saimiel  J.  Coleman,  children:  Donald,  Dorothy, 
b.  Oct.  3,  1902.  Carol,  b.  May  8,  1903.  Malcom,  b.  Aug,  22,  1904, 
Kenneth,  b.  Jan.  3,  1906.  Carmen,  b.  Jan.  3,  1907,  Lewis  Oscar, 
b.  April  20,    1908. 

i.  LucRETi.A  Fraxcina,  b.  May  3,  1842,  m.  July  3,  186.? 
Herman  R.  Bulson,  b.  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  4, 
1841,  d.  Stockton,  Cal.,  Dec.  25,  1897.  He  was  a  physi- 
cian with  an  extensive  practice,  located  first  in  Blooming- 
dale,  Mich.,  next  in  Evansville,  Wis.,  and  finally  in 
Stockton,  Cal.  He  served  in  the  Civil  War,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  various  medical  societies  and  a  Mason. 

Children : 

1.  Albert  Eugexe,  b.  July  24,  1864,  d.  in  Wisconsin,  Nov.  6,   1878. 

2.  Chas.  H.,  b.    Nov.    6,  1867,  is    a  physician    and    surgeon. 

Has  held  successively  the  positions  of  Health  Offi- 
cer for  Placer  Co.,  Cal.,  Chief  Surgeon  of  the  Sacramento 
Hospital,  Chief  Surgeon  of  the  Veterans'  Home  at  Napa, 
Cal.,  and  is  now  surgeon  of  the  First  Squadron  Cavalry,  N. 
G.  C.  In  1892  m.  Miss  Ida  Castle.  They  have  one 
child,  Maxine  Lucretia,  b.  July  8,  1909. 

3.  William    Henry,    b.    Feb.    10,    1870,     has   had    a   thor- 

ough training  in  mechanics  and  engineering  and  holds  a 
position  in  his  line  of  work  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  where  he 
now  resides,  m.  1895,  the  dau.  of  C.  C.  Castle,  has  no 
children. 


Plll-IIK    jll'SON    El.I.lOTT 


2:i.     Webster   Jipson  {Joseph'.  Miailr'.  John-.  John'}.  (  Note  change 
of  sp<-lling  of  name  adopted  by  him  and  his  descendants)   b.  in 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Goshen,  Mass.,  Oct.  25,  1781,  d.  March  26,  1828;  when  he 
reached  the  ag?  of  21,  went  to  Madison  County,  New  York.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  M.  Betsy,  dau.  of  Ruben 
Griswold  and  Mary,  his  wife,  b.  Feb.  23,  1783,  d.  Apr.  23,  1869. 

Children : 

47.  i.       Almon,  b.  J.in.  5,  1806. 

ii.  Phebe,  b.  Oct.  29,  1907,  d.  1877.  M.  John  Elliott  and  moved  to  Lan- 
sing,  Michigan.     No  children. 

48.  iii.     Manus,  b.  Jan.   11,  1810. 

iv.  Seth  R.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1811,  d.  1896,  m.  in  Madison  Co.,  New  York, 
M.^rv  Jackson,  had  no  children. 

49.  V.      Orrin  Webster,  b.  March  4,  1814. 

50.  vi.     Henry,  b.  March  29,   1818. 

24.  Joseph''  Jepson  (Joseph*.  Micah\  John'\  John^)  h.  in  Goshen, 
Mass.,  1784,  d.  Sept.  22,  1859.  Was  a  farmer  and  lived  all  his 
life  in  Goshen.  He  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Jonathan  Hastings,  b.  in 
Wilmington,  Vermont,  Feb.  3,  1789,  d.  in  Goshen  Dec.  1,  1873. 

Children  : 

i.  ILZADA,  b.  Jan.  24,  1812,  d.  Feb.  1880,  m.  Sept.  1834,  Elijah  Jordan. 
Children:  1,  Arthur,  b.  Dec.  7,  1835,  m.  Mary  Brown  of  Worth- 
ington,  Mass.  Had  two  children,  a  daughter  who  died  young,  a 
son  Henry  b.  1862,  now  living  in  New  York  City.  2,  Horatio,  b. 
March  12,  1836,  m.  Angeline  H.  Brown  of  Worthington,  Mass., 
four  children:  a,  Howard  Eugene,  m.  Hattie  Merriam,  1887;  b, 
Eva  Julia,  m.  A.  H.  Field  of  Providence,  R.  I.;  Elijah  aiid 
George,  b.  1870  and  1877  respectively,  are  unm.  and  reside  in 
'  Boston.  3,  Amelia,  b.  Jan.  24,  1838,  d.  Dec.  1908,  m.  Wm.  How- 
ard, a  soldier  in  the  Union  Army,  who  probably  lost  his  life  in 
the  battle  of  Gettysburgh.  4,  Amelia,  b.  1846,  m.  Lucien  Gil- 
bert and  lives  in  Massachusetts.  No  children.  5,  William  Ed- 
ward, b.  1843,  d.  Oct.  8,  1907,  at  Wilmington,  \'a.,  m.  Emma 
Medburg.  No  children.  6  and  7,  Elizabeth  and  Edgar,  twins,  b. 
1845.  8,  Julia,  b.  May,  1849,  m.  Marcus  M.  Brown,  of  Worth- 
ington, Mass.,  and  had  one  daughter  Maud,  who  m.  Clayton 
Knapp  and  has  four  children,  all  girls.  9,  Marcia,  h.  1850,  unm. 
10,  Edwin  Augustus,  b.  Feb.  1867,  m.  Fannie  Streeter  of  Cum- 
mington,  Mass.,  two  children:  Ilzada,  who  m.  John  Davis  of 
Ware,  Mass.,  and  has  one  daughter,  Gertrude,  and  Marcus  M., 
b.  Aug.  28,  1889. 

ii.  Francis,  b.  Aug.  1826,  d.  Nov.  24,  1901.  Was  a  carpenter,  lived  in 
Goshen,  Mass.,  for  several  years  and  in  1861  was  member  of 
Committee  to  Assess  and  expend  money  for  the  purpose  of  pre- 
paring volunteers  for  service  in  the  war.  He  moved  to  Canaan, 
New  Hampshire  where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
m.  Caroline  S.mith,  b.  1831,  d.  Nov.  20,  1890.  Child:  1,  Mary 
A.,  b.  1855,  d.  March  10,  1906.  M.  first  Charles  A.  Storey,  and 
had  one  son:  she  m.  secondly,  S.  B.  Withington. 

iii.     Anson,   b.  Goshen,   Mass.,   d.    Bernadotte,    HI.,    (now    Table 

Grove)  abt.  1896.  Was  a  cooper  by  trade,  m.  Naomi  Brice  ;  no 
children. 


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25.  HarveV'  Jepson  (Davids  Miailr.  John-.  John^)  b.  Povvnal,  Vt., 
AuR.  18,  1790,  (!.  Jan.  24,  1851,  m.  Apr.  Q,  1820,  Mary 
Myers,  b.  Au^.  l'^,  1707,  a.  Au^.  15,  1858,  He  lived  near 
the  forests  and  shaved  shingles,  working  si.xteen  to  eighteen 
hours  daily.  He  gave  his  children  a  good,  common  school  edu- 
cation. 

Children : 

i.  TvPHOSA,  b.  Feb.  23,  1821,  m.  Lemuel  Wheeler.  Children:  1,  Joel: 
2,  Ed'u.'ard ;  3,  Frank. 

51.  ii.      George  W.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1822. 

iii.  Ch.arles,  b.  .Apr.  14,  1824,  d.  in  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  m.  Caro- 
line Babcock.  He  went  to  the  California  gold  fields,  mined  for 
seven  years,  then  bought  a  farm  in  Michigan.  Children:  1,  .Ida; 
2,  Sainantlta;  3,  A<vis. 

52.  iv.     Myron,  b.  Dec.  24,  1825. 

53.  V.      Harvey,  Jr.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1827. 

54.  vi.     John,  b.   March   14,   1829. 

vii.    Lucinda,   b.   May   30,    1831,   m.  Jan.   1,   1852,   Chauncev  J.   Sweet. 

Children:  1,  Colonen;  2,  Eugene;  3,  .-lit/iur;  4,  Ella;  5,  Folem; 

6,  John;  7,  Juan. 
viii.  Mary,  b.  June  12,   1834. 
ix.     Ruben,  b.  June  4,  1836,  d.  June  30,  1850. 

55.  X.     Joel,  b.  May  3,  1838. 

xi.  Sophira,  b.  March  5,  1840,  d.  May,  1893.  Was  an  active  Sunday 
School  worker.  M.  Willlam  H.  Taft.  Children:  1,  .irtliur,  m. 
Evylen  Aschton ;  2,  Ella  May,  m.  Joseph  Grimes. 

xii.  Venice,  b.  Nov.  9,  1843.  Lived  in  Massachusetts  for  several  vears, 
now  lives  in  Postville,  New  York,  m.  Jan.  1,  1864,  Geo.  S.  Clark, 
b.  Nov.  15,  1841.  Children:  1,  Lila  .-/.,  b.  Florida,  Mass.,  Oct.  15, 
1864,  m.  Aug.  9,  1882,  Arthur  M.  Tucker,  and  had  five  children: 

a,  Lewis  Albert,  b.  May  10,  1883,  m.  Hattie  L.  Stevenson.  b, 
Eugene  Harvey,  b.  August  6,  1885,  m.  Apr.  28,  1910,  Kathryn  R. 
Schuman.  c,  Grace  Genevieve,  b.  April  4,  1887,  m.  Dec.  31,  1907, 
Francis  T.  Hillard.  d,  George  Judson,  b.  Oct.  19,  1893.  e,  Mil- 
dred Sarah,  b.  Dec,  1900.  2,  Harvey  Syl-vanus,  b.  March  22, 
1868,  is  employed  in  a  shoe  factory,  m.  Sept.  25,  1895,  Grace  Rob- 
bins;  has  two  children:  Allen  H.,  b.  Dec.  3,   1896,  and  Madeline, 

b.  Sept.  22,  1899.  3,  Harriet  Lucinda,  b.  Dec.  31,  1869,  Florida, 
Mass.,  unm.  and  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 
4,  Evangeline  At.  Clark,  b.  Sept.  11,  1871,  m.  May  8,  '1892, 
Thomas  Merrin,  a  farmer  who  now  lives  in  Rvegate,  Vermont, 
and  has  four  children:  a,  Clertrude  Miay,  b.  Jan,  5,  1893,  m.  July 
10,  1909,  Robert  Ralston;  b,  Henry,  b.  March  19,  1892;  c,  Flor- 
ence E.,  b.  Oct.  18,  1895,  m.  June  20,  1913,  Raymond  Stanley;  d, 
Frederick,  b.  April  4,  1898.  5,  irillis  G.,  b.  March  28,  1873,  at 
Wilmington,  Vt.,  is  employed  in  a  shoe  factory  in  Whitman, 
Mass.  and  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church.  M.  Sept.  26,  1893, 
Elsie  M.  Burtist  and  has  two  children:  Eva  M.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1894, 
and  Elsie  Venice,  b.  Dec.  28,  1899.  6,  .Mary  S.  Clark,  b.  Oct.  14, 
1874  at  Wilmington,  Vt.,  m.  May  15,  1904,  to  .-Mmon  .Myers. 
They  are  members  of  the  Baptist  Church  and  live  in  North 
Adams,  Mass.  They  have  two  children:  Lester,  b.  April  8,  1906, 
and  Richard,  b.  April  14,  1908.    7,  Doane  B.,  b.  March  30,  1878, 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Guilford,  Vt.,  m.  Caroline  Court,  Dec.  8,  1906.     Is  a   member  of 
the  Baptist  Church  and   lives  in  Vallejo,  Calif. 

26.  David'  Jepson  {David*,  Alicalr',  John-,  John^)  b.  in  Pownal 
Vt.,  April  28,  1796,  d.  in  Pownal,  Vt.,  Sept.  18,  1873.  Was  a 
farmer.  A  member  of  the  Method'st  Church  and  in  politics,  a 
democrat.  M.  March  30,  1820,  Huldah  Welch,  d.  Dec.  8, 
1876. 

Children : 

i.  Alvira,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.,  Jan.  \,  1821,  d.  in  Pownal,  May  15,  1891,  m. 
first  Chester  Eaton  of  Adams,  Mass.,  Sept.  28,  1839,  and  by  him 
had  three  hcildren:  1,  dying  in  infancy;  2,  Marie  and  3,  Chester, 
both  dying  young,  said  to  have  been  poisoned  by  eating  moun- 
tain ash  berries.  She  m.  secondly,  Phillip  Perry  and  by  him 
had  one  cliild,  Everett,  who  now  lives  in  Williamstown  and  she 
m.  thirdly,  Orsemas  Niles,  b.  Nov.  4,  1816,  d.  May,  1893;  six 
children,  three  dying  young  and  three  row  living;  a,  ll'ealtha,  b. 
Sept.  9,  1857,  m.  Cyrus  Stone,  a  minisfer  who  failing  in  health 
moved  on  a  farm  in  Nebraska.  Was  killed  by  lightning.  They 
had  one  child,  Lillian,  who  d.  in  Adams,  Mass.,  at  the  age  of 
seven.  Weltha  m.  secondly,  Charles  E.  Town  of  Nebraska  and 
by  him  had  two  children,  Julia  and  Cuyler.  b,  Elliot,  b.  Feb.  12, 
1860,  m.  Olive  Thompson,  1879.  She  died  1891,.  had  three  chil- 
dren: Murry  who  m.  Bertha  Smith  and  lives  in  Williamstown, 
Mass.;  Marian,  who  m.  Wallace  Perry  and  Mabel.  He  m.  sec- 
ondly Alice  Johnson,  and  by  her  has  one  child,  Harry,  c,  Han- 
nah, b.  June  30,  1861,  m.  Loverri  Estes,  Aug.  14,  1877;  four  chil- 
dren: a,  Cyrus,  b.  Sept.  4,  1878,  m.  Susie  Howard,  had  two  chil- 
dren, b,  Eda,  b.  Oct.  3,  1891,  d.  March  18,  1896.  c,  Hattie,  b. 
Dec.  27,  18S8,  d.  May  12,  1901.  d,  Karl,  b.  Jan.  14,  1892,  m. 
Maude  Foster,  had  one  child,  Lovern  Clarence,  b.  Jan.  30,  1913. 

ii.  Rachel,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.  Sept.  12,  1822,  d.  Aug.  1873,  m.  March  9,  1843, 
in  N.  Adams,  Mass.,  Nemiah  Sprague,  b.  Dec.  22,  1821,  d.  Feb. 
12,  1875.  Children:  1,  Nemiah,  d.  young.  2,  Francis,  b.  Somer- 
set, July  10,  1847,  m.  twice,  first,  Jan.  1,  1870,  Jennie  Jillson, 
who  d.  soon,  m.  secondly.  May  2,  1874,  Mary  E.  Smith.  Chil- 
dren: (all  by  second  wife)  :  a,  Hattie  E.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1875,  m.  Aug. 
23,  1894.  Geo.  E.  May,  four  children;  two  died  in  infancy, 
Harry  E.,  b.  March  31,  1897  and  Percy  F.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1901.  b,  Ida 
A.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1876,  m.  Dec.  24,  1895,  Dudley  Ware,  three  chil- 
dren. Myrtle  F.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1900;  Kenneth  G.,  b.  March  29,  1903; 
Herman  J.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1906.  c,  Frank  E.,  b.  Apr.  1,  1897,  m. 
De?.  12,  1901,  Kate  Snow;  four  children:  Dorothy  E.,  b.  Aug.  27, 
1903;  Paul  F.,  b.  May  1,  1906;  Glen,  b.  June  24,  1907,  and  How- 
ard, b.  Apr.  29,  1912.  d,  Emma  M.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1881,  m.  Dec.  27, 
1897,  Farnk  E.  Allen,  five  children;  Willie  F.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1898; 
Olive  L.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1901;  Robt.  M.,  b.  March  27,  1903;  Mar- 
guerite F.,  b.  May  2,  1909;  Walter  E.,  b.  Jan.  29,  1911  ;  e.  Bertha 
A.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1886,  m.  May  5,  1905,  Fred  B.  Chiney,  two  chil- 
dren, Lampson  F,  b.  April  3,  1906  and  Everett  L.,  b.  Nov.  17, 
1907.  f,  Mildred  F.,  b.  Oct.  9,  1894,  m.  July  2,  1910,  Roland  N. 
Hubbard;  two  children,  Helen  M.,  b.  March  28,  1911  and  Arlene 
M.,  b.  Jan.  12,  1913.     3,  Byron,  b.  Somerset  Nov.   15,   1849,  d.  N. 


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Adams,  Oct.  16,  1904,  m.  May  19,  1872,  in  Easton,  Mich.,  Helen 
Sharp;  three  children,  George  A.,  b.  May  22,  1875;  Frank  B., 
b.  Aug.  20,  1879  and  Fred  W.,  b.  July  21,  1885.  4,  Elmer  D., 
b.  Whitingham,  Vt.,  June  26,  1853,  m.  Jiijy  1,  1876,  Ida  Carpenter. 
No  children.  5,  IJa  E.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1859,  d.  Aug.  4,  1861.  6,  Dorr 
L.,  b.  July  4,  1862,  m.  Nov.  22,  1884,  Abbie  J.  Bruce;  four  chil- 
dren: Clarence,  b.  May  22,  1886;  Alyce  A.,  b.  Apr.  13,  1891; 
Helen  E.,  b.  Nov.  24,  1895;  Byron  F.,  b.  April  18,  1898. 

H  \RR1ET,  b.  Oct.  1,  1824,  d.  Feb.  25,  1894,  m.  March  4,  1843,  Far- 
vim   Sprague,  a   Methodist  minister,  b.  ,   d.    Oct.    30,    1880. 

Children:  1,  James  H.,  b.  Whitingham,  Vt.,  Dec.  10,  1844,  d. 
Dec.  18,  1912,  m.  April  20,  1874,  Susan  Norton;  no  children.  2, 
David,  b.  Whitingham,  Vt.,  Sept.  25,  1846,  m.  Mary  Summer, 
July  16,  1870.  3,  Harriett,  b.  Oct.  18,  1848,  d.  Feb.  29,  1894,  m. 
May  20,  1865,  Cinatus  Wiley,  and  moved  to  Dakota  and  d.  there 
Four  children.  4,  Jonathan,  b.  May  5,  1851,  d.  Nov.  28,  1875,  m. 
Jan.  1,  1874,  Sarah  Sumner.  5,  Homer,  b.  Dec.  II,  1853,  m.  May 
12,  1874,  Flora  Wilson,  had  several  children.  6,  Manning,  b.  May 
11,  1856,  d.  unm.  in  Readsboro,  Vt.,  Nov.  23,  1874.  7,  Nelimiah, 
b.  May  19,  1859,  m.  No.  1879,  Betsy  Exford ;  had  several  chil- 
dren. 8,  Hoyt,  b.  Sept.  II,  1861,  m.  Nov.  10,  1892,  Anna  Peterson. 
Lived  in  Dakota.  9,  Luanda,  b.  May  26,  1865,  m.  J.  W.  Mar- 
shall of  Readsboro,  Vt. ;  moved  to  Pennsylvania  and  d.  there- 
in, Wesley  M..  b.  July  26,  1867;  d.  in  Dakoti,  April  8,  1889. 
Never  married. 

Catherine,  b.  Oct.  27,  1827,  at  Pownal,  Vt.,  d.  Jan.  21,  1892,  m.  Oct. 
4,  1844,  Lysander  Edwards  of  Shelbourne,  Mass.,  b.  Nov.  8,  1822, 
d.  Dec.  2,  1894.  Children:  1,  Karris,  b.  Charlemunt,  Mass.,  Dec. 
27,  1846,  m.  in  Springfield,  Vt.,  1869,  Lydia  Putnam.  Norris  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Rebellion.  2,  Rohert  R.,  b.  Somerset,  Mass.,  April 
29,  1849.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  civil  war,  m.  in  Worcester,  Mass., 
1875,  Emma  Smith.  3,  Reuben  J.,  b.  Nov.  12,  1851,  in  Somerset, 
Mass.,  m.  in  Springfield,  Vt.,  Jennie  Moore.  Is  a  manufacturer 
of  scythe  snaths.  4,  Angielia  M.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1853,  m.  Nov.  23, 
1872,  Alfonso  Bishop,  b.  Jan.,  1850.  5,  Arabella,  b.  Springfield, 
Vt.,  July  2,  1856.  6,  Franklin  P.,  b.  Springfield,  Vt.,  April  12, 
1861,  m.  Martha  Scott.  7,  Leland  A,,  b.  June  8,  1865,  m.  Bertha 
Gordon.  Is  a  Congregationalist  minister,  now  living  in  New- 
port, \'t. 

Ja.mes  Bates,  b.  May  27,  1829. 

Electa,  b.  March  7,  1831,  in  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  V.,  d.  Dec.  6,  1892, 
m.  July  4,  1847,  JosiAH  Olik,  d.  in  North  Adams,  Mass.,  in  1904, 
a.  77  years.  Children:  1,  Theodore,  m.,  wife's  maiden  name,  un- 
known; no  children.  2,  Isadone,  m.  Edward  who  d.  1908.  Had 
one  child.  Bertha,  who  m.  Charles  Deming.  No  children.  Bertha 
d.  New  York  City,  1909. 

Fanny,  b.  Stamford,  Vt.,  July  16,  1836,  d.  1878,  m.  July  4,  1857, 
William  H.  Sheldon,  b.  July  1,  1832,  d.  Lyons,  Nov.  26,  1888. 
Children:  1,  Leon  H\,  b.  July  7,  1860,  Milford,  Mass.,  m.  April 
6,  1896,  Minnie  Brown;  no  children.  2,  Cora,  b.  July  14,  1862, 
Milford,  Mass.,  d.  young.  3,  Fred  ().,  b.  April  12,  1865,  Rutland, 
Vt.,  m.  and  lived  in  Chicago.  4,  Bell,  b.  Branden,  Vt.,  May  2, 
1867,  m.  Aug.  2,  1884,  James  Ellsworth  of  Port  Huron.  Child. 
Leon  Ellsworth,  b.  June  11,  1888,  now  living  in  Battle  Creek, 
Mich.  5,  Clifford  //.,  b.  March  6,  1871,  in  Bennington,  Vt.  When 
quite  young  his  parents  died  and   he  lived    with    his    uncle    and 


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boarded  at  Saranac  until  he  was  seventeen  years  old.  Enlisted 
in  the  U.  S.  Navy  and  has  been  in  the  service  ever  since,  except 
when  on  a  vacation.  Is  head  gunner  and  stationed  at  Norfolk, 
Va.     Will  soon  retire  on  pension. 

ix.  David,  b.  July  19,  1839,  in  Pownal,  Vt.,  d.  Jan.  27,  1914,  Hoosick,  N. 
Y.,  m.  first  Dec.  25,  1876,  Lucinda  Van  Alstyne,  b.  Hastings,  N. 
Y.,  April  24,  1842,  d.  Aug.  14,  1886;  m.  secondly,  Mary  Clapper 
of  Hoosick,  New  York,  b.  Castleton,  New  York,  April  24,  1870. 
Child  by  first  wife:  DaviJ  C,  b.  Aug.  31,  1880,  d.  Sept.  18,  1880. 

X.  Patience  H.,  b.  March  28,  1842,  d.  July  20,  1895,  m.  George  Foote, 
b.  Conway,  Mass.,  July  27,  1815,  d.  March  15,  1897.  Children: 
1,  I'efta  Emma,  b.  July  4,  1866,  m.  Robert  Graham,  of  North 
Adams,  Mass.,  three  children.  2,  George,  b.  Jan.  10,  1868.  3, 
Hettie  E.,  b.  Nov.  11,  1870,  m.  first,  Alfred  Lawson,  one  child, 
m.  secondly,  M.  H.  Pratt.  4,  Hayden  B.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1875,  m.  May 
24,  1894,  Mary  Rich.  5,  Oney  D.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1877,  m.  May  24, 
Martha  Ludwig. 

.\i.  Emeline  C,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.,  Feb.  7,  1844,  d.  Saranac, 
Michigan,  January  24,  1916.  Attended  district  school  un- 
til fourteen  years  old  and  then  Oak  Grove  Seminan,-,  in 
Pownal,  and  finished  her  education  at  the  Wesleyan  Fe- 
male College  at  Springfield,  Vt.  M.  July  11,  1866,  in 
Saranac,  Mich.,  Albert  Stebbins  of  Ionia,  Mich.,  b. 
Nov.  22,  1846,  d.  in  Easton,  Mich.,  May  1,  1909.  Mrs. 
Emeline  SxEBBrNs  was  a  Methodist  and  an  active  Sun- 
day School  worker.  Was  president  of  the  Aid  Society 
and  Steward.  Was  an  active  temperance  worker,  W.  C. 
T.  U.  oflficer  and  lived  a  helpful,  noble  life.  In  the  pre- 
paration of  this  volume,  the  Author  has  received  much 
help  from  her. 

Her  Children : 
1.  Allen  E.,  b.  Dec.  8,  1872,  m.  Dec.  9,  1894,  Myrtle  Ellison,  b.  Keene 
Michigan,  April  3,  1876.  Seven  children:  a,  Adelbert  L.,  b.  in 
Easton,  Mich.,  July  7,  1895;  b,  Hyland  W.,  b.  Easton,  Feb.  9, 
1897;  c,  Gerald  B.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1900  in  Easton;  d,  Leland  W.  b. 
North  Plains,  Oct.  17,  1902;  e.  Maxwell  J.,  b.  Sheridan,  Mich., 
Jan.  25,  1908;  f,  Blanche  E.,  b.  Sheridan,  Aug.  31,  1909;  g,  Mel- 
bourn  A.,  b.  Sheridan,  Dec.  13,  1911.  2,  Runette  M.,  b.  Sept.  13, 
1877,  m.  Geo.  E.  Hulliberger  of  Boston,  Feb.  6,  1895,  at  Sara- 
nac. He  was  b.  in  Niles,  Mich.,  June  21,  1873.  Four  children: 
a.  Pearl  E.,  b.  Easton,  Feb.  15,  1900;  b,  Adah  M.,  b.  Keene,  July 
8,  1904;  Albert  L.,  b.  Easton,  Sept.  20,  1909,  and  Hilda,  b.  Easton, 
Jan.  26,  1913.  3,  Lena  Bell,  b.  Aug.  29,  1880,  m.  Dec.  18,  1906. 
No  children. 

27.  James''  Jepson  {David*.  Mkah^,  John'-,  John^),  b.  in  Pownal, 
Vt.,  June  3,  1800,  lived  for  many  years  in  Bennington  and  d. 
there.  According  to  U.  S.  Census,  he  was  living  there  in  1840, 
with  one  male  under  10,  1  m.  30  to  40,  2  females  under  10,  1 
female  30  to  40.     He  m.  Lydia  Thorp. 


LORENZO    DOW   JEPSON,   SR. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Chilli ren  : 
i.  Rlth,  b.  1832;  m.  1851,  James  Nolan.  Children:  1,  tieniarJ,  m. 
Mary  McConnell,  Chicago,  111.  Children;  James,  John,  Harry, 
Frank,  Charles  and  Joseph.  2,  James,  d.  young.  3,  Mary,  m. 
William  Kelly,  1877.  Children;  a,  James  Bernard,  h.  1880;  b, 
Genevieve,  b.  1882,  m.  George  F.  t)'Brien,  1905,  children;  Mar- 
garet and  Genevieve;  c,  Dr.  John  Frances  Kelly,  b.  1883,  m.  Mary 
Sullivan,  child;  William,  b.  1914;  d,  Edward,  b.  1888;  e,  Flor- 
ence Jepson,  b.  1892;  f,  Frances  Evangeline,  b.  1895,  d.  1915.  4, 
Annie,  m.  Dr.  F.  C.  Fitzsimmons;  children;  Ruth,  b.  1889;  (Jrace 
b.  1894.  5,  Joseph,  m.  Elizabeth  Snow,  1905.  Children;  Joseph, 
b.  1909,  Marion  Ruth,  b.  1912.  6,  John,  b.  1892,  m.  Annie  Healey, 
3  children;  Irene,  Walter  and  Romaine.  7,  Emma,  m.  Hugh 
Gallagher.  Children;  Eleanor,  b.  1894;  James,  b.  1897;  Gene- 
vieve, b.  1899;  Dorohty,  b.  ^902;  Hubert,  b.  1904,  and  Edward,  b. 
1909. 

58.  ii.      Henry,  or  James  Henrv,  b.  Sept.  30,  1838. 
iii.     Annie,  m.  Abel  Harrington. 

iv.     Harriet,  m.  Gifford. 

59.  v.      George,  b.  about  1843. 
vi.     Eliza,  m.  

vii.    Laura,  m.  

60.  viii.  Reuben   Wright,   b.   April    10,   1849. 

28.  Benj.amin''  Jepson   (Dinid'.  Micah\  John'-.  Jolin^),  b.  June  2, 

1802,  at  Pow-nal,  Vt.,  d.  May  26,  1873,  at  Homer,  N.  Y.,  m. 
Jan.  25,  1826,  at  Bennington,  Vt.  Am.anda  P.almer,  b.  Apri. 
2,  1808,  d.  Sept.  19.  1893,  at  Homer,  N.  Y. 

Children: 
i.       George  P.,   b.   Sept.  4,   1827,   in   Homer,   X.   Y.,    d.    Feb.   9,     1848     in 
Homer,  N.  Y. 

61.  ii.      Enos  Palmer,  b.  April  3,  1829. 

iii.  Andrew  J.,  b.  April  2,  1831,  Homer,  X.  Y.,  d.  June  22d,  1903,  m.  Aug. 
5,  1856,  Ursula  E.  Gregory  who  d.  Sept.  4,  1857.  One  daughter, 
Marg.  Charlotte,  b.  July  5,  1857,  d.  Sept.  7,  1861. 

vi.  Helen  Artemisia,  b.  March  21,  1833,  Homer,  N.  Y.,  d.  July  2,  1914, 
Homer,  N.  Y.,  m.  first,  Jan.  13,  1853,  Chester  Nev\ton  Howe,  b. 
July  20,  1832,  d.  Jan.  9,  1874;  m.  secondly  to  Willia.m  H.  Phil- 
lips of  Elvira,  N.  Y.,  who  d.  Oct.  28,  1899.  Children  all  by  first 
husband;  1,  Austin  C,  b.  July  18,  1859,  m.  Homer,  N.  Y.,  d.  May 
30,  1913,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  m.  Clara  A.  Lee  in  Groton,  N.  Y. 
who  d.  Dec.  5,  1913.  2,  Charlotte  Minerva,  b.  Nov.  14,  1861, 
Homer,  N.  Y.,  d.  Feb  7,  1911,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

62.  V.      Lewis  R.,  b.  March   16,   1835,   Homer,  N.   Y. 

vi.     Dyer  Palmer,  b.  Jan.  21,   1837,  at  Homer,  N.  \ .,  d.  .'\ug.   16,   1910, 

Syracuse,  .\.  Y. 
vii.    Minerva  A.manda,  b.  June   13,   1839,  at  Homer,  N.  Y.,  d.  June  25, 

1901,  at  Cuba,  N.  Y.,  m.  June  20,  1860,  to  Philander  Stevens  of 

Cuba.  N.  Y. 

29.  I^)RKNZ()    Dow'    Jepson    (David*.    Mirnli'-.   Johir.   .hJiu').    h. 

Pownal,  Wrmont,  Feb.  24,  1807,  d.  Aiiu.  27,  1871,  ni.  Feb.  2fc, 


J  EPSON  FAMILY 


1835,  Amy  Babcock,  b.  at  Pownal,  January  28,  1816,  d.  June 
7,  1860.     Lived  in  Pownal  and  vicinity  practically  all  his  life. 

Children  : 

Lorenzo  Dow,  Jr.,  b.  Pownal,  N.   Y.,  June  2,   1836. 

,.  Adelaide,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.,  Oct  16,  1838,  d.  July  25,  1907,  m.  Dec.  28, 
1854,  David  Kimball,  b.  in  Pownal,  Nov.  10,  1828,  d.  Aug.  14, 
1875.  Children:  1,  Truman  D..  h.  July  30,  1856.  2,  Byron  Eu- 
gene, b.  March  14,  1859,  d.  Aug.  14,  1870.  3,  Elsie  Maria,  b. 
May  1,  1865,  m.  Ira  Edward  Morgan,  Jr.,  March  7,  1883.  Chil- 
dren: a,  Fred  Edward,  b.  Dec.  21,  1883.  b,  Edith  Lillian,  b. 
June  9,  1885;  is  in  a  training  school  for  nurses  in  Pittsfield, 
Mass.  c,  Ada  Loraine,  b.  Feb.  3,  1887,  m.  March  8,  1906,  Wil- 
liam B.  Morgan,  two  children,  Lucy  Jane  and  Ada  Ruth.  d, 
Francis  Earl,  b.  in  Pownal,  Oct.  12,  1888.  e,  Florence  Isabel, 
b.  Sept.  30,  1890.  f,  Allen  Sylvester,  b.  at  Pownal,  Sept.  14,  1892. 
g,  Harriett  Ellen,  b.  Jan.  21,  1895,  m.  Everett  Jepson,  b.  April 
18,  1898.  h,  Bernice  Elsie,  b.  Feb..  21,  1902.  j,  Harold  Ira,  b. 
Pownal,  Oct.  30,  1904.  4,  .-//jVc  Ella,  b.  Pownal,  May  1,  1865, 
d.  March,  1903,  m.  Nov.,  1882,  Jadoc  White,  one  child,  Marvin 
E.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1888.  5,  Jmy  Irene,  b.  at  Pownal,  May  27,  1872, 
m.  Aug.  16,   1896,  Solomon  Champagne. 

ii.  VanNess,  b.  in  Pownal,  Vt.,  Jan.  28,  1841,  d.  April  10,  1896,  m.  Oct. 
30,  1867,  EVALINE  MiYERS,  b.  Aug.  26,  1845.  Was  a  farmer;  in 
politics  a  republican.  In  early  life  was  a  regular  attendant  and 
member  of  the  Methodist  Church.  Was  a  very  kind  man  in  his 
family.  His  death  followed  a  long  illness  of  pernicious  anemia. 
Child:  Luella  Amy.  b.  Jan.  20,  1869,  m.  June  25,  1891,  Edwin  F. 
Greene,  b.  April  13,  1863.  Children:  Ida  Evelyn,  b.  Oct.  21,  1893 
and  Lillian  Adelle,  b.  Feb.  23,  1896. 

V.  Alice  A.,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.  June  29,  1843,  m.  Jan.  17,  1872,  Ammon  E. 
Fowler,  b.  at  Pownal,  Vt.,  Aug.  21,  1876,  now  living  in  Benning- 
ton, Vt.  One  child:  I.aren  Isaac,  b.  at  Pownal,  Aug.  21,  1876,  m. 
Nov.  16,  1904,  Jennie  May  Hicks;  two  children:  Mary  Alice 
Fowler,  b.  at  Pownal,  April  12,  1912  and  Robt.  Erons,  b.  Sept.  1, 
1916. 

r.  Everett  M.,  b.  Aug.  16,  1851,  d.  Aug.  13,  1898,  m.  first,  Nov.  12,  1872, 
Ida  E.  Mason,  b  at  Po.wnal,  ,  d.  Aug.  1875.  He  m.  sec- 
ondly, Jan.  4,  1800,  Lucinda  Stillman  Gray.  One  child,  Ed- 
ward Everett,  b.  at  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  July  30,  1886,  m.  April 
25,  1908,  Henrietta  Andrews,  one  son,  Edward  Everett,  Jr.  b. 
Sept.  12,  1912. 


30.  ELf'  Jepson  (Samuel*.  Mlrah\  John-.  John')  b.  Nov.,  1793,  in 
Goshen,  Mass.,  d.  Oct.  18,  1857,  in  Bridgeport,  N.  Y.,  m. 
Mary  Ann  Burrington,  b.  Apr.  17%,  d.  January  4,  1876. 
After  his  marriage  Eli  lived  in  Bridgeport,  N.  Y. 

Children: 

Julia  Ann,  b.  June  17,  1818,  d.  July  11,  1842. 

Henry  Hudson,  b.  Sept.  19,  1819. 

Celia,  b.   1821,   d.   in  childhood. 

Jerome,  b.  1823,  d.  June  1829. 


LUTHER   JEPSON 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


65.  V.      Charles  Burrincton,  b.  Dec.   15,   1825. 

66.  vi.     Jefferson  H.^ll,  b.  Oct.,  1827. 

vii.  Am.\nd.\  Jepson,  b.  July  9,  1829,  d.  Sept.  5,  1899,  m.  July,  1851 
Nath.xn  Sayles.  Children:  1,  Mary  Prisrilla  Sayles,  b.  April  13 
1853,  m.  Frank  Brezee.  Children:  a,  Harriet  Amanda  Brezee, 
b.  1878,  d.  1917.  b,  Goldie  E.  Brezee,  b.  1879.  c,  William  M 
Brezee,  b.   1882.     b,  Goldie  E.  Brezee,   b.    1892.     2,   Charles  Na 

than  Sayles.  b.  1855;  m.  .     Children:  a,  Harry  Sayles,  b.  1880 

b,  Orecia  Sayles,  b. .     3,  Frank  Sayles,  b.  1853,  m. .     One 

daughter.   Bertha   Sayles,    (now)    Bertha   Sayles  Cramer. 

viii.  Harriet,  b.  Aug.  3,  1831,  d.  May  22,  1913,  m.  Aug.  18,  1852,  Jerome 
J.  Newton.  Children:  1,  Julia  Cynthia  Neviton,  b.  May  16,  1853, 
m.  Murray  J.  Waterman,  Jan.  8,  1908.  2,  Carrie  Arvilla  Neiv- 
ton,  b.  May  12,  1856,  m.  Gorham  J.  Wilson,  Dec.  1891.     Children: 

a,  Florence  E.  Wilson,  b.  May  25,  1883,  m.  F.  H.  Leach,  April 
1912;  one  child:  Janet  Caroline  Leach,  b.  July  26,  1914.  b,  Har- 
riett A.  Wilson,  b.  Oct.  16,  1885,  m.  Vernon  Bowler,  Sept.  1908; 
child,  Robt.  Wilson  Bowler,  b.  July  21,  1913.  c,  Newton  G.  Wil- 
son, b.  March  5,  1891,  m.  Dec.  8,  1915;  child,  Murray  W.  Wil- 
son, b.  Dec.  7,  1916.  3,  John  Hutchins  S'eivton,  b.  Feb.  25,  1858, 
m.  Oct.   1891,  Martha  Todd  Long.     Child:  a,   Clara   A.   Newlon, 

b.  Mar.  12,  1891;  m.  Ned  Olmstead,  Nov.  1910;  child,  Martha  L 
Olmstead,  b.  April  27,  1913. 

ix.     Jero.me,  b.  June  22,  1833,  d.  1910;   m.   Sophia  Rose.     Children: 

1,  Herbert,  deceased.     2,  Lee,  m.     Lives  in  Michigan. 

67.  X.      John,  b.  June  13,  1835. 

^i.     Joei.  Jepson,  b.  June   1845,  d.  October  4,   1915. 

i\.  Ll'ther' Jepson  (S-.mini^  Micah\  John'-.  John'')  b.  March  25, 
1794,  in  Goshen.  Ma:s.,  d.  Sept.  20,  1869,  m.  Oct.  30,  1869 
Betsy  King,  b.  18C0,  d.  in  Gouverneur,  New  York,  March 
30.  1876.  (K)^ 

Children  : 

i.  Evelyn,  b.  Sept.  18,  1823,  d.  Dec.  10,  1889  in  Philadelphia,  N.  Y.,  m. 
first,  Mar.  27,  1853,  J.  L.  Church;  m.  secondly,  Nov.  5,  1857, 
Chauncev  Smith.  Was  always  the  "little  mother"  that  the  eld- 
est daughter  in  a  large  family  is  wont  to  be.  An  exceptional 
house  keeper,  rather  matter  of  fact,  always  solicitous  for  the 
health  and  comfort  of  others.  She  dearly  loved  children  and  the 
loss  of  her  ilttle  ones  was  a  never  ending  sorrow.  She  had  an 
air  of  refinement  that  is  seldom  surpassed.  She  li\ed  at  Churche's 
Mills  with  her  first  husband  for  three  years  until  death  claimed 
him.  With  her  second  she  lived  very  happily  at  Hammond.  N. 
Y.  and  later  in  (Jouverneur  beside  her  adored  brother  Alfred. 
By  her  first  husband  she  had  one  child,  d.  May  21,  1834,  a.  twelve 
days.  Child  by  her  second  husband:  2,  Sahra  Eveline,  b.  Oct. 
10,  1859,  d.  June  21,  1864.  After  the  death  of  her  sister,  Saman- 
tha,   Evelyn   adopted   her  sister's  dau.,  Alice. 

ii.  Terressa,  b.  Hammond.  N.  Y.,  Oct  22,  1826,  d.  March  24,  1912,  m. 
June  27,  1874,  as  his  second  wife.  Rev.  Irenus  H.  Grant.  No 
children.  She  was  a  wontlerfully  brilliant  character,  the  bright- 
est and  wittiest  of  the  family.  She  was  a  sunny  little  girl,  but 
as  she  grew  up  she  often  had  unhappy  spells  that  could  but  be 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


reflecteci  on  those  around  her.  When  about  thirty-three  she  wrote 
to  her  sister,  "When  life  is  once  divested  of  its  charms  it  is  but  a 
dull  monotonous  page  of  ills  and  sorrows.  How  often  have  I 
wished  its  scene  had  been  closed  to  me  when  I  was  but  a  little 
child.  How  much  better  it  would  have  been,  for  what  purpose 
I  live  I  do  not  know,  but  who  can  contend  with  fate."  At  another 
time,  "There  is  but  one  way  to  triumph  in  life's  battlefield  and 
that  is  to  fight  it  bravely  and  courageously.''  At  other  times  she 
entertained  all  with  her  sparkling  repartee.  She  understood  chil- 
dren and  made  an  exceptional  teacher.  She  was  successful  in  her 
management  of  the  ugly  ones  because  of  wit  and  quickness  in 
turning  a  serious  situation.  She  cared  for  her  sister  Samantha's 
home  for  a  time  after  her  death,  then  married  Irenus.  Until 
just  before  her  death  in  her  eightieth-sixth  year  she  kept  up  her 
own  home,  traveled  alone  through  Chicago  to  visit  relatives  and 
took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  world.  While  visit- 
ing in  Mfirengo  she  had  a  fall  that  culminated  in  her  death. 

Amand.^,  b.  Sept.  5,  1829,  d.  Sept.  23,   1829. 

S.AMANTH.^,  b.  Oct.  17,  1830,  d.  May  10,  1869,  m.  May  1857,  Rev. 
Irenus  H.  Grant  of  Roscoe,  III.  W^as  a  woman  of  beautiful 
V  character  and  very  capable.  She  was  the  "sedate''  member  of  the 
family,  noted  for  her  sound  common  sense.  To  her  every  one 
turned  for  comfort  and  advice.  She  "went  west"  to  teach  and 
there  met  her  future  husband.  Rev.  Irenus  H.  Grant.  It  was 
hers  to  know  the  hardships  and  victories  of  the  pioneer  Meth- 
odist minster's  wife.  To  know  her  was  to  love  and  admire. 
Children:  1,  Luther,  b.  spring  of  1858,  d.  Dec.  1861.  2,  Eddy,  b. 
spring  of  1860,  d.  Der.  1861.  3,  Lillian  Terressa,  b.  Oct.  27,  1862, 
at  Roscoe,  111.,  m.  Sept  15,  1883  at  Belvidere,  III.,  Grant  F. 
Rulifson,  M.  D.,  and  located  in  Chicago.  Mrs.  Kulifson  was  a 
teacher  of  ability.  She  is  a  capable  wo?nun  and  a  natural  leader. 
For  many  years  she  has  been  president  of  the  Woman's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society  of  Granville  Ave.  M.  E.  Church  of  Chicago 
and  is  Secretary  of  Literature  of  the  Woman's  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  of  Chicago,  N.  District.  One  child,  Genevieve  Lil- 
lian, b.  Nov.  17,  1890;  is  a  graduate  of  Northestern  University. 
4,  Albert  Jepson  Grant,  Oct.  17,  1865,  m.  Mar.  7,  1902,  at  Free- 
port,  111.,  Emma  Bender.  Has  natural  mechanical  ability  and  a 
national  reputation  for  superiority  as  a  toolmaker.  Is  now  em- 
poyed  in  the  Arsenal  at  Rock  Island,  111.  No  children.  5,  Alice 
5.,'b.  May  1,  1869,  d.  1870. 

AURELIA,  b.  June  16,  1833,  at  Hammond,  N.  Y.,  m.  Mar.  2,  1865, 
John  Andrew  Hanson,  b.  Strafford,  New  Hamphire,  Jan.  17, 
1816,  d.  Dec.  14,  1905.  Mrs.  Hanson  is  a  woman  who  excels  in 
everything  she  attempts.  When  past  seventy-six  she  learned 
china  painting  and  now,  at  the  age  of  84  is  knitting  three  helmets 
a  week  for  the  army.  Has  a  wonderfully  good  memory  and 
takes  an  interest  in  all  the  live  topics  of  the  day.     Children: 

1.  Eva,  b.  March  20,  1866,  at  Caledonia,  111.  m.  June  6, 
1889,  Francis  Eugene  Thornton,  M.  D.  b.  Sept.  28, 
1864,  prominent  West  Side  physician  and  lives  in  Chicago, 
111.  She  is  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Woman's 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  Rock 
River  Conference.     A  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of 


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education.  Has  three  children:  a.  Btuta,  b.  Nov.  16, 
\8^2.  d.  at  a.  of  19.  She  had  nineteen  beautiful  years 
with  which  to  gladden  her  little  world.  She  was  the  em- 
bodiment of  kindness,  her  influence  the  sweetest,  and  her 
memory  is  hsld  sacred.  Like  the  story  of  Gwenn  in  "The 
Sky  Pilot,"  it  would  be  difficult  to  enumerate  all  the  flow- 
ers that  grew  in  Bcuh's  canyon,  b.,  Marion  Lucilc,  b. 
June  23,  1897,  is  a  student  of  Northwestern  University  in 
her  third  year,  c,  Frances  Evelyn,  b.  Oct.  5,  1903,  is 
about  to  enter  the  High  School. 
Alfred  John,  b.  May  24,  1868,  m.  June  9,  1898,  Ella  Kelley,  is  a  man 
of  remarkable  memory;  learned  to  read  when  three  years  old. 
Was  a  prodigy  in  mathematics  at  age  of  four.  Children;  a,  Les- 
ter, b.  May  25,  1899,  d.  Sept.  7,  1899.  b,  Marie,  b.  Aug.  31,  1900. 
c,  Clifford,  b.  Sept.  5,  1904,  d.  Apr.  1,  1912.  3,  Ruby  Samantha, 
b.  Mar  8,  1871,  Caledonia,  III.,  m.  Sept.  5,  1901,  Frank  G.  Sears. 
She  was  educated  in  Beloit,  Wis.,  High  School;  was  an  excellent 
teacher;  prime  mover  in  establishing  a  church  in  Westmore  and 
held  Sunday  School  in  her  homie  three  years.  One  child,  Kenneth 
Charles,  b.  April  II,  1909.  4,  Luther  Jepson,  b.  June  26,  1873, 
was  killed  by  lightning,  April  21,  1886.  5,  Betsey  Atirelia,  b. 
May  29,  1876,  in  Caledonia,  111.,  is  a  special  teacher  in  the  Mc- 
Kinley  High  School  and  the  Chicago  Home  for  Girls;  is  especi- 
ally gifted  in  the  teaching  of  millinery,  weaving  and  textiles. 
Julie,  b.  June  27,  1836,  d.  May  2,  1841. 
Celi.a,  b.  Nov.  20,  1838,  d.  Apr.  22,  1841. 
.  Albert  Gillett. 
:.  Alfred  King,  twins,  b.  June  21,  1842,  in  Hammond,  N.  Y.  Albert 
Gilbert,  d.  Feb.  23,  1900,  m.  Aug.  19,  1869,  Nina  Ellen  Orm- 
STON,  who  survives  him. 

Albert  was  educated  at  Gouverneur  Wcsleyan  Seminary 
and  Weslevan  University,  Middletown,  Connecticut,  Class 
of  1869.  Here  he  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
and  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  Little  Rock  Uni\ersity. 
E.xcspt  for  a  few  years  in  the  drug  business  in  Muskegon, 
Michigan,  his  life  was  spent  entirely  in  educational  work; 
he  taught  in  both  public  schools  and  colleges  in  Michigan, 
Idaho  and  Illinois.  For  eleven  years  he  filled  the  chair  of 
Mathematics  in  McKendree  College,  Lebanon,  111.;  was 
its  Vice-President  ,and  for  two  years  acting  President.  He 
was  sent  in  1892,  a  delegate  to  the  General  Conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  His  was^a  brave,  unsel- 
fish life.  He  was  a  leader  in  the  Religious  thought  of  the 
students  and  had  a  great  influence  for  good.  Strong  in  his 
convictions,  keen  at  repartee,  an  interesting,  lovable  char- 
acter. His  unfeigned  interest  in  the  lives  and  welfare  of 
others  endeared  him  to  all. 

Children  : 
1.  Julia  Geneivieve,  b.  June  2Z,  1871   at  Northville,  Mich.,  is  a  gradu- 


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ate  of  McKendree  College,  and  is  now  teaching  in  the  Alton 
High  School.  2,  Nina  Theresa,  b.  July  22,  1873,  in  Roscoe,  111.,  m. 
May  8,  1898,  in  Lebanon,  111.,  Robert  Henry  Harding,  b.  Jan.  11, 
1871;  is  a  graduate  of  McKendree  College.  Children:  a,  Har- 
ol  Walter,  b.  Sept.  25,  1899.  b,  Nina  Ruth,  b.  July  13,  1902.  c, 
Robert  Jepson,  b.  July  19,  1907.  d,  Elizabeth  Evelyn,  b.  Aug.  7, 
1913.  3,  Jessie  Ormislun.  b.  June  12,  1875,  at  Romeo,  Mich., 
m.  June  25,  1902,  at  Lebanon,  111.,  Charles  Edmund  Ritcher;  is  a 
graduate  of  McKendree  College.  Children:  a,  Katherine  Gene- 
vieve, b.  Sept.  7,  1903,  at  East  St.  Louis,  111.  b,  Albert  Jepson,  b. 
June,  1906,  at  East  St.  Louis,  c,  Charles  Edmund,  Jr.,  b.  Oct.  15, 
1907,  d.  June  24,  1908.  d,  Geo.  Ormiston,  b.  July  20,  1910.  e, 
Edmond  Francis,  b.  July  14,  1916.  4,  Bertha  Evelyn,  h.  Muske- 
gon, Mich.,  Jan.  10,  1877,  is  a  graduate  of  McKendree  College 
and  now  teaching  in  the  E.  St.  Louis,  III.,  high  school.  5,  Rut/i 
Isabel,  b.  Dec.  15,  1879.  Was  drowned  while  in  bathing,  June 
5,  1899. 

32.  Salem"  Jepson  (Samuel*,  Mkah\  John'.  John')  b.  probably  in 
Goshen,  Mass.  Lived  for  many  years  in  Pownal,  Vt.,  and  vi- 
cinity. Census  of  1830  showed  him  living  in  Pownal  with  one 
male  child  under  ten  years.  He  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn., 
•  and  wfs  a  member  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal  Church.  In  1843 
he  moved  to  corner  of  Jacob  and  North  Third  Streets,  near 
the  No.  Methodist  Church.  The  Pownal  town  records  state 
that  two  sons  were  born  to  Salem  and  Fanny,  his  wife:  Or- 
RiN,  Nov.,  25,  1829,  and  Orsemas,  Feb.  8,  1830.  (Evidently 
one  of  these  must  be  wrong)  a  letter  of  date  1849  states  he 
WKS  the  father  of  twins  hoys.  In  1866,  Hartford  probate  rec- 
ords state  that  Catherine  Jepson  was  appointed  the  Admin- 
istratrix of  the  Estate  of  Orsemas  Jepson. 

a.     JOEL^  Jepson    {Samuel\  Micah\  John-.  John')     b.  about  1796. 

d. .     m.  in  Hoosic,  N.  Y.,  Hannah  Plass.     Lived  for 

many  years  in  Rossie,  New  York,  and  died  there. 

Children : 

i.       Mary,  m.  Petrie  and  lived  for  a  time  at  Pope's  Mills,  New  York. 

ii.  Eliza,  b.  Feb.  21,  about  1820,  m.  first  Nov.  1836,  Jos.  Grey:  m.  sec- 
ondly, James  Hunter.  Child  by  first  husband:  1,  Elizabeth  Mary 
Grey,  b.  Aug.  31,  1840,  m.  Alex  Almo.  Children  by  second 
husband:  2,  Ellen  Hunter,  b.  at  Rossie,  N.  Y.,  Apr.  17,  1839  (?) 
m.  1861,  John  Mullin.  Children:  a,  Kateer,  b.  Sept  21,  1864,  in 
Rossie,  N.  Y.,  m.  July  22,  1896,  Rossie,  N.  Y.  Chas.  Simpson.  One 
child:  Helen  M.,  b.  June  1,  1901,  Rossie,  N.  Y.  b,  Mary,  b.  1866, 
Rossie,  N.  Y.,  m.  to  F.  J.  Kelly;  two  children:  Gladys,  b.  June, 
1909,  and  Leo,  b.  1910.  c,  Nellie,  b.  Dec.  21,  1869.  d,  Grace,  b. 
Mar.  8,  1871.  e,  John,  Jr.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1873.  f,  James,  b.  April  15, 
1875.  g,  Maggie,  b.  Mar.  6,  1876.  h,  William,  b.  July  4,  1877,  m. 
Eva  Lockie,  June  25,  1901.  3  children,  Donald,  b.  20  Feb.  1903; 
Willis,  b.  Nov.  24,  1905  and  Buelah,  b.  May  19,  1908.     i,  Daniel, 


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JEPSON  FAMILY 


b.  Aug.  4,  1881.  j,  Leo,  b.  Oct.  24th,  1883,  m.  to  Eva  Kelly,  June 
5,  1909:  One  child,  Margaret  E.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1913  3,  James.  4, 
Cornelia  Jane,  h.  Aug.  31,  1847,  m.  Felix  Amo.  5,  Sarah.  6, 
George  llunler,  b.  April  4,  1850  (  t)  Rossie,  N.  Y.,  m.  first,  Mary 
St.  Peters,  June  15,  1863  (?).  m.  Secondly  April  2nd,  1874, 
Rachel  Westerdick.  Children:  a,  Robert,  b.  Aug.  14,  1869,  m. 
Tacie  Simmons,  Dec.  21,  1893  and  had  four  children  b.  in  town 
of  Theresa,  Glen  V.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1896,  Virgel  D.,  b.  April  17, 
1897,  Clarence  B.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1899,  and  Gilbert  S.,  b.  May  12, 
1909.     b,   Mary,  b.   May   1st,   1872,   m.   George  .'\mo,   of  Ogilens- 

burg.     c,  Theron  (Children  by  2nd  marriage)    d,  George 

W.,  b.  Jan.  21,  1875,  m.  Lilian  Rosenbaker,  Sep.  21,  1898  and 
has  three  children:  Lloyd  D.,  b.  June  7,  1907,  Murray  G.,  b. 
Nov.  7,  1901,  and  Annie  E.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1903.  e,  Edna  B.^  b.  Dec. 
3,  1876,  m.  to  Daniel  E.  Leary,  April  7,  1895.  Has  seven  chil- 
dren: Clarence  W.,  b.  June  3,  1896;  George  M.,  b.  Aug.  14,  1899; 
Lena  M.,  b.  June  5,  1902;  Alice  E.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1904;  Anna  M.,  b. 
Sept.  22,  1907;  Bernard  E.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1909  and  Rosalean  R.,  b. 
Jan.  11,  1911.  f,  Florence  G.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1878;  m.  Fred  Heary, 
July  31,  1906,  and  had  two  children,  Myrtle  L.,  b.  June  12,  1907, 
and  Clifford  P.,  b.  July  12,  1909.  Florence  G.  married  secondly, 
Levi  Burnham,  Feb.  12,  1915.  g,  Carrie  M.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1880,  Ros- 
sie, N.  Y.,  m  first,  Joseph  F.  Ames;  m.  secondly,  May  11,  1909, 
Richard  Ames,  Rossie,  N  Y.,  and  had,  by  first  marriage,  two  chil- 
dren, Pauline  N.,  b.  Aug.  5,  1900,  and  Jessie  NL,  b.  July  26,  1902. 
By  second  marriage,  four  children;  Elizabeth,  b.  May  22,  1910; 
Helen,  b.  March  17,  1912;  Ruth,  b.  Oct  29,  1913  and  Ethel,  b.  May 
12,  1915.  h,  Annie  E.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1882.  i,  Frank  H.  b.  Dec.  22, 
1884,  m.  Bessie  Perry,  March  12,  1907  and  had  two  children, 
Willis,  b.  June  19,  1907,  and  Lena,  b.  Feb,  24,  1909.  j,  Willam  H., 
b.  Dec.  22,  1886,  m.  Mary  E.  Rexford,  Sept.  12,  1912.  k,  Ethel 
M.,  b.  Jan.  11,  1889,  m.  Chas.  Bressette,  May  20,  1909.  I,  James 
A.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1892,  m.  Mary  V.  Shindler,  Sept.  8,  1909,  and  had 
two  children,  Floyd  D.,  b.  June  26,  1910,  and  Doris  V.  b.  Feb. 
17,  1914.  m.  Earl  A,  b.  April  20,  1894.  n,  Eugene  R.,  b.  May 
30,  1897.  o,  Gladys  M.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1899.  7,  Hannah  Hunter,  b. 
June  16,  1852,  m.  March  1867,  James  McLear.  Children:  a, 
James,  b.  April  12,  1868,  m.  Rosie  Colett  and  had  two  children, 
Wilmer  and  Lottie;  Lottie  m.  and  has  one  child,  b,  Mary  B.,  b. 
Oct.  25,  1869,  m.  first  William  Sophie,  m.  secondly  James  El- 
dridge  and  has  three  children  by  first  marriage,  Willie,  Myrtle, 
atid  Otis  and  five  by  the  second  marriage,  Ethel,  Margaret,  Flor- 
ence, Henry  and  Helen,  c,  \\'aller  B.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1872,  m.  Eva 
Teneyck,  1879  and  has  four  children,  Emma,  Pearl,  Hazel  and 
Lloyd,  d,  Clara,  b.  Feb.  3,  1874,  m.  Dezabo  Lunderman  and  has 
six  children,  Mary,  Lilian,  Anna,  Belva,  James  and  William,  e, 
Mellville,  b.  Oct.  5,  1870,  m.  Jennie  Nelson,  May  17,  1896  and 
had  seven  hildren,  Veta  L.,  b.  Dec.  1,  1897;  Iva.  A.,  b.  Sept.  25, 
1899,  Victor  J.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1901;  Avery  N.,  b.  July  16,  1904; 
Avis  L.  b.  Jan.  10,  1908;  Vincent  L.,  b.  June  22,  1911  and  Erva 
M.,  b.  Nov.  14,  1914.  f,  Orville,  b.  Sept.  15,  1878,  not  married. 
K,  Rosclle,  b.  Sept.  25,  1881,  d.  1885.  h,  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  26,  1884, 
m.  Lena  Dana,  1911,  and  has  three  children,  Alden  J.,  b.  Aug., 
1912,  Alton,  b.  Nov.  1914,  and  a  baby  gril,  b.  Oct.  1915.  i,  Mar- 
garet B.,  b.  Oct.  22,  1885,  m.  June,  1903,  Burt  Rowland,  and  has 
six   children,    Eva,    Gweneth,    Corleen,    I.etha,    Rutha    and    Irene. 


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j,  Sarah,  b.  Sept.  2,  1887,  m.  Nov.  18,  1905,  Frank  Young,  and 
had  four  children,  Oleda,  Lawrence,  Lauretta  and  a  baby 
boy.  k,  Seaman,  b.  July  25,  1891.  1,  George  b.  Nov.  27,  1894. 
8,  Eliza  C,  b.  May  18,  1854,  m.  Sept.  5,  1875,  M.  W.  James  Day. 
Children:  a,  Julia  M.,  b.  July  11,  1876,  m.  Nov.  16,  1898,  Fred- 
rick J.  Petrie  and  had  three  children,  Hilda  M.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1899; 
Alton  D.,  b.  May  7,  1904  and  Harold  J.,  b.  Aug.  15,  1907.  b, 
Lillian  A.,  b.  Feb.  3,  1878.  c,  Mary  F.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1879.  d,  Anna 
Adelia,  b.  June  25,   1883,  m.  Aug.  26,   1911,  J.  M.  O'Neill,  M.  D. 


Anna  D.w  O'Neill 

e,  Florence,  b.  Aug.  24,  1886,  m.  Aug.  8,  1912,  J.  G.  McCaffery 
and  has  one  child,  James  Robert,  b.  Aug.  16,  1914.  f,  Carrie 
Ellen,  b.  Nov.  7,  1889,  m.  June  21,  1916,  W.  Benjamin  Slack.  9, 
Julia,  b.  March  27,  1855,  m.  Jay  Rexford.  10,  Warren,  b.  Feb. 
28,  1856,  m.  Dec.  25,  1880  Rozalia  Brotherson,  and  has  one 
child,  Delbert,  b.  June  13,  1882.  11,  Emma,  b.  April  8,  1857,  m. 
Felix  Bassard.  12,  Robert,  b.  May  8,  1859,  d.  in  infancy.  13, 
Minnie,  b.  Feb.  9,  1863,  m.  Oct.  24,  1883,  D.  D.  Simons.  Chil- 
dren: a,  Albert  L.,  b.  Jan.  18,  1884,  m.  June  2,  1909,  Lottie  F. 
Shindler,  and  had  two  children.  Alberta  M.,  b.  July  8,  1910,  and 
Lester  C,  b.  Jan.  6,  1913.  b,  Lulu  E.,  b.  Dec.  13,  1889,  m.  June 
10,  1909,  Leon  J.  Bresette  and  had  one  child,  Harold  D.,  b.  Aug. 
3,  1914. 

iii.     FiLiMLA,  m.  a  Highland  Scot. 

iv.     Betsev,  d.  at  age  of  two. 

v.      CHARlTi',  m.  Brown  ;   a  son,  Henry,  lives  in  Rossie,  N.  Y. 

69.  vi.     Warren,  b.  1832. 

70.  vii.    Anson,  b.  April  25,  1834. 

71.  viii.  George,  b.  April  9,  1839. 

34.  Thomas''  Jepson  {Samuel*,  Micah^,  John^,  Johti^)  b.  in  Pow- 
nal,  Vt.  Jan.  3,  1807,  d.  at  Petersburg,  N.  Dak.,  Dec.  10,  1886, 
m.  June  24,  1829,  Betsy  Houghton,  b.  Pownal,  Vt.,  Nov. 
1809,  d.  Webster,  Mass.,  Sept.  10,  1897.  Was  a  cooper  by 
trade  and  during  his  early  life  lived  and  worked  in  Southern 


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Vermont  and  North  W^cstern  portion  of  Miissachiisetts.  Later 
he  became  bosi  carder  in  a  cotton  f actor\ .  Moved  to  Ware, 
Mass.,  then  to  Southbridge,  and  then  to  Webster,  Mass.  Had 
charge  of  the  carding  rooms  for  the  Slater  Mnfg.  Co.  for  many 
years.  He  d.  while  in  N.  Dakota.  He  had  taken  up  a  claim 
and    li\ed    on    it    about    two    years. 

Children : 
i.     Amand.\  L.,  b.  Williamstown,  Mass.,  Oct.  7,  1832,  d.  Webster,  Mass., 
March  22,  1901,  m.  first,  Oct.  26,  1854,  Amos  A.  White;  m.  sec- 
ondly, Mr.  Converse.     By  first  husband  had  three  children;   one 
daughter,  Slelln.  m.   Martin   N.   Johnson   of   N.   Dakota,   who   be- 
came a   United  States  Senator. 
ii.      Amy  L.,  b.  Bennington,   Vt.,  June  27,   1835,  d.   Webster,   Mass.,   Feb. 
19,  1867,  m.  Nov.  20,  1854,  George  W.  Shomway. 
72.  iii.     Vernon  M.,  b.  Dec.  22,   1843. 

35.  John''  Jepson  {John,''  M'tlliam*,  John'-,  John')  b.  in  Dover, 
Mass.,  N.0V.  22,  1791,  d.  in  Norfolk,  IVIass.,  m.  C.aty  Wilson 
of  North  Wrentham,  (Now  Norfolk). 

Children : 

i.  Louisa,  b.  Sept.  19,  1818,  m.  Dec.  23,  1841,  Albert  E.  Dodge  of 
Charlestown,  Mass.  Children:  1,  George,  now  d.  but  left  a  son, 
Percy,  of  Maiden,  Mass.  2,  Frank,  now  living  at  Charlestown, 
Mass.      3,   Arthur,  now    living   in   Arizona.      (M). 

ii.  Catherine,  m.  William  Wiswell,  of  Oak  Hill,  Newton  Centre, 
Mass.  Children:  1,  Maria,  now  Mrs.  Arthur  Hall  of  Newton 
Highlands,  Mass.  2,  Etia  Louise,  now  Mrs.  Chas.  Hall,  Brook- 
line,  Mass.     3,   William,  Oak  Hill,  Newton   Centre,  Mass. 

iii.  Julia,  b.  June  18,  1822,  d.  March  4,  1914,  m.  William  Hunting  of 
Millis,  Mass.     Both  dead.     No  children. 

iv.     John  Lowell,  b.  OcL  22,  1826,  d.  in  Walpole,  March  14,  1887. 

V.     William   Addison,   b.  10,   1836,   m.   Jan.    1,    1865,     Harriett 

Anna  Fales,  in  Walpole.  Children:  I,  Mabel  Anna,  b.  April 
19,  1866.  2,  Handel  Lowell,  b.  Sept.  26,  1867,  m.  Mary  Evans; 
three  children:  a,  Herbert,  b,  Ruth,  c,  Henrietta.  3,  Chester 
Fales,  h.  Sept.  4.  1872,  H.  April  10,  1874.  4,  Flora  Everetta,  b. 
Sept.    17,   1877. 

M).  Willis"  Jepson  (Lemutt'\  John*.  WiUiam\  John'^,  John^)  b.  in 
No.  Carolina,  Nov.  7,  1799.  d.  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  Sept.  19, 
18.39.  m.,  Simpson  Co.,  Kentucky,  Sept.  18,  1818,  Cynthia 
Morrow,  b.  Simpson  Co.,  Kentucky,  Dec.  15,  1801,  d.  Blue 
Bottom,  Mo.,  Mar.  i,  1864.  He  and  his  wife  left  Kentucky 
in  1827  and  settled  in  the  rich  and  fertile  Blue  Bottom,  Jackson 
County,  Missouri,  and  were  very  successful.  Willis  Jepson 
was  a  very  fine  man,  highly  respected  by  every  one,  and  of  ex- 
cellent principles.  He  was  regarded  as  a  leader  and  important 
man  in  his  family.     All  the  other  members  of  his  family,  that 


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is,  his  brothers  and  sisters,  followed  him  to  Blue  Bottom  from 
Kentucky,  save  Benjamin  and  Rachel.  He  was  prosperous 
and  would  have  been  wealthy  had  he  lived.  For  hospitality  and 
generosity  he  had  a  wide  reputation.  His  negro  people  he 
treated  most  humanely  and  considerately.  One  of  these  was  a 
famous  cook  named  "'Aunt  Neat,"  who  used  to  be  sent  for  on 
occasions  of  weddings.  At  one  great  wedding,  where  everyone 
was  invited  and  many  poor  folk  w^re  present,  Aunt  Neat  was 
asked  on  her  return  home  if  she  minded  the  poor  folk:  "La,  No! 
Missus.  I  ain't  pore  folks;  I'se  Qualit\!"  a  characteristic  ne- 
gro reply. 

Children : 

James  L.,  b.  Simpson  Co.,  Kentucky,  July  23,  1819,  d.  Taney  Co.,  Mo., 
Sept.  10,  1851.  m.  first,  Catherine  Major,  (died  in  Jackson 
Co.,   Mo.,   June  20,    1849)    and   had   one  child,   Nancy   G.  Jepson, 

b.  Jan.   9,   1849,   died  during  the  Civil   War.     m.   second,  

Blazers,  no  children,  but  the  wife,  a  widow,  had  issue  by  a 
previous  marriage, 
i.  Patsy  Ann,  b.  Simpson  Co.,  Ky.,  April  1,  1821,  d.  Myrtle  Creek, 
Ore.,  July  12,  1901.  m.  first  in  Jackson  Co.,  Mo.,  Dec.  12,  1839, 
William  Green  Milliken,  who  d.  at  Craigler  Springs,  Cal., 
June  18,  1858.  They  crossed  the  plains  in  1842.  Wfn.  G.  Milli- 
ken was  assessor  of  Douglas  Co.,  Ore.,  and  took  part  in  the  early 
Indian  wars.  She  m.  secondly  at  Winchester,  Ore.,  June  9,  1859, 
Henry  Wiley,  b.  in  Pike  Co.,  Ohio,  Dec.  13,  1821,  d.  Myrtle 
Creek,  Ore.,  Sept.  14,  1904.  They  lived  on  the  Wiley  farm  in 
Douglas  Co.,  Ore.  the  remainder  of  their  lives.  They  were 
devout  members  of  the  Methodist  Church.  Henry  Wiley  being 
a  lay  officer  of  the  church.  He  served  in  the  Mexican  war. 
Members  of  the  family  still  live  in  Oregon  and  Washington. 
Children  by  first  husband:  1,  IViltis  Milliken,  b.  Jackson  Co., 
Mo.,  Oct.  9,  1840,  m.  Feb.  2,  1887,  to  Emma  Berger,  b.  in  Mary- 
land, De:.  20,  1866.  Children:  a,  Blanche  Catherine,  b.  Seattle, 
Wash.,  March  1,  1890.  b.  Hazel,  b.  Seattle,  Jan.  19,  1894,  m.  Aug. 
6,  1913,  Frank  B.  Fairchilds.  c,  Fay  June,  b.  Seattle,  June  18, 
1896,  d.  Oct.  9,  1896.  2,  Harbinson,  b.  in  Taney  Co.,  Mo.,  Nov. 
S,  1842,  d.  Clackamas  Co.,  Ore.,  Sept.  8,  1852.  3,  John  Ran- 
dolph, b.  in  Taney  Co.,  Mo.,  March  4,  1849,  d.  in  Taney  Co., 
Mo,  March  21,  1850.  4,  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Douglas  Co.,  Ore., 
Sept.  5,  1856,  d.  in  Myrtle  Creek,  Ore.,  Nov.  30,  1863.  Children 
by  second  marriage:  5,  Kitlie  IViley,  b.  Douglas  Co.,  Oregon, 
March  19,  1860,  m.  first,  Dec.  25,  1878,  Keeler  Harris  Gabbert. 
Children:  a,  Effie  Mabel,  b.  Douglas  Co.,  Ore.,  March  4,  1880, 
m.  April  6,  1898,  to  George  Andrew  Nodurft,  b.  WJirren  Co.,  In- 
diana, June  12,  1864;  four  children;  Marie  Alice  Nodurft,  born 
in  Rice  Co.,  Kansas,  Jan.  6,  1899;  Gerta  Frances  Nodurft,  born 
Douglas  Co.,  Ore.,  March  6,  1900;  Loesa  Eugenia  Nodurft,  born 
in  Douglas  Co.,  Oregon,  March  26,  1910;  George  Leverne  No- 
durft, born  in  Douglas  Co.,  Ore.,  March  6,  1912.  Kittie  m.  sec- 
ondly, May  9,  1895,  Charles  Wesley  Brown,  b.  Liberty,  Warren 
Co.,  Dec.  17,  1849.  One  child:  Henry  Virgil  Brown,  b.  Douglas 
Co.,   Oregon,    Sept.    14,    1896.      6,   Sarah   Ann    H'iley,  b.   Douglas 


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Co.,  Ore.,  Sept.  21,  1862,  m.  May  18,  1902,  to  Thomas  Artimus 
Smith,  b.  Bear  River,  Utah,  July  22,  1852.  No  children.  (The 
husband   has  children   by  a   previous  marriage.) 

73.  iii.     Ephraicm   M.,  b.   May  7,    1823. 

74.  iv.     WiLl.lA.M  Lemmon,  b.  Nov.  7,  1826. 

V.      Orson   F.,  b.  Blue   Bottom,   Mo.,  June   16,    1839,   d.    in   the   Hawaiian 

Islands,  May  IZ,  1854  unm. 
vi.     Lemuel,  b.  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  March   1831,  d.  in  San  Francisco,  Jan. 

21,  1850. 
vii.    Benj.^.viin  Franklin,  b.  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  Nov.  17,  1832;  d.  in  Blue 

Bottom  in  1849;  unm. 
viii.  Jesse   M.,  b.  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  Nov.   18,   1836,  d.   in   Blue   Bottom, 

Mo.   in    1849. 

37.  Benjamin"  JepsoX  (LemutP.  John*,  Wdliam^.  John-.  Jolm^)  b. 
Dec.  8,  1800  in  Tennessee,  d.  Mar.  30,  1861  in  Simpson  Co., 
Ky.  Was  the  only  one  of  the  family  to  remain  in  Kentucky  on 
the  old  Jepson  place.  His  living  descendants  are  today  more 
numerous  than  those  of  all  his  brothers  and  sisters.  He  re- 
moved to  Simpson  Co.,  Ky.,  with  his  parents  when  he  was  six 
years  old.  He  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  all  his  life.  He 
was  from  early  life  a  member,  first  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
Church,  then  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian.  He  m.  first 
M.ARTH.A  Morrow,  who  d.  and  he  m.  secondly,  Betty  Pe.ar- 

SON. 

Children  h\  first  wife: 

75.  i.       Simpson  M.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1824. 

76.  ii.      Cassander  L.,  b.  April  26,  1826. 

iii.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  March  28,  1828;  d.  June  22,  1869;  m.  Jan.  6,  1863, 
James  W.  Dinning.  Children:  1,  Susan  Rebecca,  b.  Franklin 
Ky.,  Feb.  5,  1864,  d.  same  place,  Sept.  7,  1879.  2.  James  H'illiam, 
b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  8,  1865,  d.  same  place,  July  25,  1901.  J. 
\V.  Dinning  was  educated  at  Orlinda,  Tenn,,  and  at  Glasgow 
Normal  College  where  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.  S. 
and  took  also  a  business  course.  He  was  one  of  Simpson's  most 
extensive  and  prosperous  farmers,  owning  a  very  fine  farm  of 
six  hundred  acres,  well  stocked  and  with  all  the  latest  improve- 
ments, six  miles  west  of  Franklin  in  the  Sulphur  Spring  Com- 
munity. He  was  scientific  and  up-to-date  in  his  ideas  of  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising  and  combining  as  he  did  the  latest  ap- 
proved methods  with  discretion,  good  judgment  and  skill,  pro- 
gressiveness  with  conservatism,  the  ideal  with  the  practical,  he 
had  commanded  in  spite  of  hard  times,  what  so  many  strive  for 
but  fail  to  reach, — success.  In  politics  he  was  always  a  Demo- 
crat; was  elected  magistrate  in  1888;  resigned  this  office  in  1894; 
in  the  spring  primary  of  1894  he  was  nominated  by  his  party  for 
the  lower  house  of  the  Kentucky  legislature;  he  was  elected  in 
November  and  re-elected  two  years  later.  During  this  period 
of  office  he  discharged  its  duties  with  credit  to  himself  and  his 
county  and  in  an  eminently  satisfactory  manner  to  the  party 
whose  representative  he  was.  He  introduced  and  secured  the 
passage  of  the  bill  which  did  away  with  the  injustice  of  the  dou- 


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ble  taxation.  It  was  while  he  was  legislator  that  there  occurred 
the  fierce  contest  between  Senator  Blackburn  and  Dr.  Hunter  for 
the  United  States  Senatorship.  Dinning  was  the  loyal  friend 
and  advisor  of  Senator  Blackburn.  In  all  matters  pertaining  to 
education  and  the  improvement  of  our  school  laws  he  was  con- 
sidered one  of  the  foremost  and  most  promising  workers.  He 
was  appointed  chairman  of  the  Simpson  County  board  of  election 
commissioners  under  the  Goebel  law  in  1898  and  re-appointed 
in  1899.  In  1900  he  became  candidate  for  County  Judge  and 
was  elected  by  a  substantial  majority.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  a  Director  of  the  Simpson  County  Bank.  He  m.  May  5, 
1887,  Luna  E.  Rose.  Children:  a,  Annie  Leota,  b.  Franklin,  Ky., 
Jan  24,  1889;  m.  Dec.  31,  1912,  E.  Duncan  Taylor.  They  live  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.  b,  Ila  Dean,  b.  at  Franklin,  June  30,  1890,  m. 
Dec.  27,  1915,  Montgomerv    Breedlove,  and  lives  in  Franklin,  Ky. 


Mrs.  Il.i^  Dinning  BreedloVe 

c,  Mary  Rose,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.  15,  1895,  m.  April  21,  1915, 
William  Seay  Brown  and  lives  in  Franklin,  Ky.  d,  James  Don- 
ald, b.  Franklin,  Aug.  5,  1899. 
Susan  Jepson,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  June  23,  1830,  d.  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  Jan.  18,  1901.  Lived  on  a  farm  35  years,  then  moved  to 
Chillicothe,  Mo.  Was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  m.  Oct. 
1,  1849,  Geo.  J.  Dreon.  Children:  1,  Henry  Joseph  Dreon,  b.  at 
Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan.  18,  1855,  (home,  Weston,  Mo.)  ;  m.  March 
25,  1886,  Emma  C.  Jennings.  Children:  a,  James  M.  Dreen,  b.  at 
Chillicothe,  Mo.,  Nov.  4,  1887,  (home,  Weston,  Mo.)  m.  March  7, 
1912,  Ester  Blunt,  and  had  children,  Edith  Irene  Dreon,  b.  at 
Troy,  Kan.,  Dec.  11,  1912  and  Agnes  Pearl  Dreon,  b.  Bean 
Lake,  Piatt  Co.,  Mo.,  March  8,  1915.  b,  George  W.  Dreon,  b. 
at  Wheeling,  Mo.  Oct.  4,  1888  (home,  Weston,  Mo.)  married 
Feb.  17,  1909,  Mabel  Mahon  and  had  one  child,  George  W. 
Dreon,  b.  at  Weston,  Mo.,  Aug.  15,  1910.  c,  Grace  May  Dreon, 
b.  at  Rushville,  Mo.,  Jan.  18,  1891  ;  d.  at  Rushville,  Mo.,  June  12, 
1896.  d,  Ruth  E.  Dreon,  b.  at  Stillwater,  Okla.,  Dec.  21,  1893,  m. 
Sept.  27,  1910,  Herbert  Saunders  and  had  children;  Triplets,  two 
boys  and  one  girl,  b.  April  10,  1912,  one  boy  Earl,  died  June  2, 
1912,  one  boy  Merl  died  June  16,  1912,  and  the  girl.  Pearl,  died 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Sept.  6,  1912.  .-Mso  Frances  Aline  Saunders,  b.  at  Weston,  Mo., 
July  3,  1913,  and  Rolla  Royder  Saunders,  b.  at  Weston,  Mo.,  Oct. 
17,  1915,  d.  at  Weston,  Mo.  Dec.  28,  1915.  e,  Russell  S.  Dreon, 
b.  at  Peny,  Okla.,  Jan.  27,  1895.  f,  Charlie  O.  Dreon,  b.  at 
Atchinson,  Kan.,  Sept.  20,  1898,  d.  in  Buchanan  Co.,  Mo.  Aug. 
19,  1899.  g,  Dora  E.  Dreon,  b.  at  Rushville,  Mo.,  Oct.  22,  1901. 
h,  Tilford  D.  Dreon,  b.  at  Rushville,  Mo.,  M&rch  27,  1903.  i, 
Josie  F.  Dreon,  b.  at  Rushville,  Mo.,  Aug.  19,  1905.  2,  Susie 
Dreon,  b.  at  Franklin,  Mo.,  May  3,  1911  (home  Franklin,  Ky.)  m. 
Feb.  21,  1883,  George  Gillespie  and  had  children:  a,  Nannie 
Gillespie,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Feb.  17,  1884.  b,  Emma  Gillespie, 
at  Franklin,  Ky.,  March  13,  1886,  (home  Franklin,  Ky. )  m.  Jan. 
21,  1906,  Charles  Davidson  and  had  children,  George  Sam  Da- 
vidson, b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  2,  1909,  and  James  Dreon 
Davidson,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Dec.  20,  1910.  c,  Tom  Gillespie, 
b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Dec.  26,  1887,  (home  Franklin,  Ky. ),  m. 
Nov.  15,  1912,  Maude  Harris  and  had  children:  George  Harris 
Gillespie,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan.  3,  1915.  d,  Luther  Gillespie, 
b.  at  Frankln,  Ky.,  April  8,  1890,  m.  Nov.  21,  1912,  Lena  Barnes, 
e,  Cecil  Gillespie,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  25,  1892.  f,  Davis 
Gillespie,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.  9,  1894.  'g.  Nelson  Gillespie,  b. 
Franklin,  Ky.,  Feb.  2,  1899.  3,  Hellie  Dreon,  b.  at  Russellville, 
Ky.,  Dec.  1860  (home,  St.  Louis,  Mb.)  4,  Jesse  Dreon,  b.  at  Rus- 
sellville, Ky.,  May  30,  1864,  d.  Jan.  7,  .1908,  (home,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.),  m.  June  3,  1888,  Nettie  Williams.  Children:  a,  Edna  F. 
Drein,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.  April  11,  1889,  home,  St.  Louis,  Mo.), 
b,  Hague  W.  Dreon,  b.  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Feb.  7,  1891,  (home,  St. 
Louis,  Mo.),  m.  Dec.  12,  1909,  Minta  Kirk,  and  had  children: 
Kirk  B.  Dreon,  b.  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  IS,  1911,  and  Edna  Dreon, 
b.  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Jan.  18,  1913.  c,  Grace  M.  Dreon,  b.  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  Jan.  31,  1904.  5,  George  Thomas  Dreon,  (home,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.)  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan.  30,  1871,  married  Delia  Chatman, 
Dec.  23,  1897.  Children:  a.  Myrtle  Dreon,  b.  St.  Louis,  Oct.  27, 
1898,  married  Sept.  17,  1915,  Al.  Karches.  b,  Georgia  Maybelle 
Dreon,  b.  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Feb.   10,   1900. 

V.     Jesse  J.,  b.  May  12,  1832. 

vi.  Sarah  A.,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Feb.  29,  1835,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
March  29,  1874,  (home,  Carthage,  Mo.),  m.  Nov.  25,  1855,  Tom 
Newland.  Children:  1,  John  L.,  b.  at  Adairville,  Ky.,  July  10, 
(home,  Carthage,  Mo.)  m.  Gussie  A.  Ennis  and  had  child;  a, 
Ennis  .M.,  b.  Cathage,  Mo.,  Dec.  16,  1884.  2,  William  T.,  b. 
Adairville,   Ky.,   Oct.    16,   1864. 

vii.  Orson  H.,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  March  18,  1838,  d.  at  Franklin,  Kv., 
May  4,   1844. 

viii.  James  B.,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.  June  15,  1840,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Sept.  4,   1840. 

ix.  .Nannie,  b.  at  Franklin,  Kv.,  Jan.  2,  1844,  d.  at  Franklin,  Kv.,  Mav 
22,  1844. 

X.  Martiiene,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  17,  1845,  (home,  Franklin.  Ky.). 
m.  Sept.  27,  1864,  Sydney  Holcomb.  Children:  1.  Ben  ll'arren, 
d.  Franklin,  Ky.,  May  3,  1866.  2,  Bob  Lee,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Apr. 
12,  1868,  (home,  Shochoh,  Ky.),  m.  Dec.  9,  1907,  Mattie  Daw- 
son. 3,  George  ll'iUiam,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Aug.  12,  1870,  (home, 
Shochoh,  Ky.),  m.  Dec.  12,  1879,  Nannie  McCarley  and  had 
four  children:  a,  Sidney  Falkner,  b.  at  Shochoh,  Ky.,  Oct.  14, 
1901;  b,  Geo.  Julian,  b.  at  Shochoh,  Ky.,  March  3,  1904;  c,  Lizzie 


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McCarley,  b.  at  Shochoh,  Ky.,  Nov.  8,  1907;  d,  Molly,  b.  at 
Shochoh,  Ky.,  Aug.  14,  1911.  4,  Tom  Allen,  h.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Feb.  25,  1873  (home,  Adairville,  Ky.),  m.  April  2,  1910  Lilly 
Ashbranner  and  had  children:  a,  Allene,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan. 
30,  1904,  d.  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  12,  1905.  b,  Wilber  Gray,  b.  at 
Tulsahoma,  Tenn.,  Dec.  22,  1905.  c,  Mable  Catherine,  b.  at  Tul- 
sahoma,  Tenn.,  Feb.  11,  1908.  d,  Terry  Skinner,  b.  in  Ark., 
Aug.  18,  1910.  e,  Thomas  Glenn,  b.  in  Franklin,  Ky.,  March 
9,  1912.  5,  f.  Joseph,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan.  4,  1875,  (home, 
Franklin,  Ky.),  m.  Dec.  16,  1915,  Rosa  Lee  Phelps.  6,  John 
Ewing,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Dec.  5,  1877.  7,  Sarah  Elizahflh, 
b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  June  24,  1880,  (home,  New  Libertys 
Ky.),  m.  June  20,  1899,  Neely  Witt:  Children:  a,  Lewis,  b.  at 
Franklin,  Ky.,  March  24,  1900.  b,  Irene,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
April  6,  1908.  c,  Elinor  Christine,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  6, 
1911.  d,  Robert  Lee,  b.  at  New  Liberty,  Ky.,  May  11,  1916.  8, 
Sam  Henderson  Holcomh,  b.  Aug.  2,  1883  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
(home.  Pond  Creek,  Oklahoma).  9,  Mary  Louisa  Holcomb,  h.  at 
Franklin,  Ky.,  June  19,  1886,  (home,  Franklin,  Ky.),  m.  Dec. 
27,  1907,  Josh  Drake.  Children:  a,  James  Douglass  Drake,  b. 
at  Frankln,  Ky.,  Sept.  14,  1908.  b.  Vera  Marie  Drake,  b.  at 
Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.  13,  1911.  10,  Chas.  Bibb  Holcomb,  b.  at 
Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  27,  1890,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Nov.  23,  1890. 
xi.  Louisa  Jepson,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  April  13,  1847,  d.  at  Franklin, 
Ky.,  April  8,  1881,  m.  March  9,  1871,  George  Gillespie.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  Eugene  Lee,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan.  27,  1872,  m.  Oct. 
27,  1897,  Lillie  Clark.  Children:  a,  George  Clark,  b.  at  Frank- 
lin, Ky.,  March  8,  1902.  b,  Mary  Rebecca,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Jan.  24,  1905;  c,  Eugene,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Feb.  8,  1909;  d, 
Evelyn  Bessie,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  26,  1913.  2,  J.  Will,  b. 
at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Aug.  9,  1873,  (home,  Franklin,  Ky.),  m.  Nov.  4, 
1903,  Myrtle  Spann.  Children:  a,  Lucille,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Aug.  28,  1905;  b,  George  Will,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  June  13, 
1907;  c,  James  Morton,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  25,  1914.  3,  Re- 
becca, b.  March  10,  1875,  (home,  Franklin,  Ky.),  m.  April  21, 
1897,  Walter  Stringer.  Children:  a,  Herbert,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
May  22,  1899;  b,  Louise,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.  14,  1902.  4, 
Elizaheih,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  16,  1877,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Dec.  3,  1879.  5,  George,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Jan  11,  1881. 
78.  xii.    Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  16,  1859. 

38.  Lemuel''  Jepson  {LemrtP,  John\  M'ilUam^,  John,"  John^)  b. 
Simpson  Co.,  Ky.,  about  1810,  d.  in  California  about  1851.  m. 
in  Tennessee  about  1832,  M.^ry  Welch  Toomey,  b.  1814,  in 
Tennessee,  d.   1848,  Independence,  Mo. 

Children: 

i.       John,  b.  in  Mo.,  1834,  d.  1834. 

ii.  Margaret  Jane,  b.  in  Mo.  Jan.  14,  1836,  d.  Oakland,  Cal.,  Dec.  16, 
1911,  m.  Aug.  24,  1854,  at  San  Jose,  Cal.,  William  W.  White,  b. 
in  Penna.,  July  8,  1830,  d.  Oakland,  Cal.,  Oct.  18,  1905.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  Mary  Emma,  b.  Contra  Costa  Co.,  Cal.,  Nov.  28,  1855; 
m.  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Dec.  14,  1884,  to  John  H.  Foster,  (born. 
Aug.  21,   1851,  at  Gilbertsville,  N.  Y.,  d.   Hoquiam,  Wash.,   Feb. 


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26,  1914).  No  children.  (Present  address,  Oakland,  Cal.,  Grove 
St.)  2,  Luty  Jane,  b.  Dry  Creek,  Cal.,  Sept.  9,  1857,  d.  Seattle, 
Wash.,  March  9,  1859.  3,  Ifilliam  If.,  h.  Seattle,  July  6,  1859. 
m.  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Dec.  7,  1907,  to  Henrietta  Schmidt  Nance, 
born  at  Maywood,  111.,  1863.  No  children.  4,  Stephen  B.,  b. 
Seattle,  June  13,  1861;  m.  at  Tacoma,  Wash.,  Nov.  7,  1907,  to 
Jane  Miller  Agers,  b.  1855,  at  Castle  Eden,  England.  No  chil- 
dren. 5,  .Innie  I.,  b.  Seanle,  Sept.  4,  1863;  m.  at  Oakland,  Cal., 
Sept.  28,  1892,  to  Charles  A.  Hubbs,.  b.  Carson  City,  Nevada, 
Sept.  29,  1863.  No  children.  6,  George  A.,  b.  Seattle,  March  16, 
1865,  m.  Jan.  7,  1892,  to  Florence  Maria  Smith,  b.  at  Seattle, 
March  27,  1872,  d.  at  Seattle,  Feb.  16,  1906.  Children:  a,  Eva 
Loraine,  b.  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  April  19,  1893.  b,  Marie  Annette, 
b.  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Dec.  7,  1894,  died  Oakland,  Cal.,  July  14, 
1908.  c,  Ileene  M.,  born  at  San  Francisco,  Aug.  18,  1897.  7, 
Lilian  Maybelle,  b.  San  Francisco,  July  13,  1867;  m.  June  3, 
1916,  James  F.  Cavallo.  (Present  address,  Vallejo,  Cal.)  8, 
Joseph  H'.,  B.  Contra  Costa  Co.,  Cal.,  March  24,  1869;  nov?  lives 
in  Seattle,  m.  April  6,  1902  to  Minnie  Easter  Briggs,  at  Vic- 
toria, B.  C.  Children:  a,  Marie  Antoinette,  born  at  Seattle, 
Wash..  Aug.  26,  1909;  c,  John  Douglas,  b.  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Aug. 
19,  1912.  9,  Charles  E.,  b.  Contra  Costa,  Cal.,  Jan.  20,  1871;  m. 
Dec.  24,  1913,  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  to  Leila  Oliver,  b.  at  Seattle. 
Wash.,  Feb.  14,  1875. 

iii.  Wii.i.iAM  Andrew,  b.  Marion  Co.,  Mo.,  April  25,  1838,  d.  Spokane, 
Wash.,  March  8,  1908;  unm. 

iv.  Lemuel  Bi.ufford,  b.  in  Mo.,  Feb.  6,  1840,  d.  Tacoma,  \A'ash.,  Sept. 
1900,  unm. 

v.  \L\Ry  Ann-,  born  in  Mo.,  Oct.  9,  1843,  d.  Contra  Costa  Co.,  Cali- 
fornia, Oct.   3,   1859,  unm. 

vi.  LuciNDA  Monroe,  b.  Jackson  Co.,  Dec.  2,  1846.  Present  address, 
Wrights,  Santa  Clara  Co.,  Cal.,  m.  May  29,  1870,  to  W1LLIA.M 
Crichton,  b.  June  22.  1835,  at  Picton,  Nova  Scotia,  d.  at  Wrights, 
Cal.,  Jan.  8,  1909.  Children:  1,  Ambrose,  b.  March  7,  1871,  at 
Pacheco,  Stillborn.  2,  Margaret  Ileene,  b.  Nov.  27,  1872,  at 
Pachedo,  Cal.,  m.  April  8,  1895,  at  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.  to  Benjamin 
Watkins  Leigh,  b.  Dec.  3,  1863,  at  San  Francisco;  present  ad- 
dress Sausalito,  Cal.  Children:  a,  Margaret,  b.  April  4,  1899; 
b,  Mary  Wickam,  b.  June  9,  1904.  3,  William  Lithgoic,  b.  July 
8,  1875,  at  Pacheco,  Cal.,  unm.  4,  Lcnore,  b.  Oct.  19,  1877,  at 
Pachedo,  Cal.,  unm. 

39.  Lemuel"  JeI'SOX  (Benjamin^,  John*,  lVUliam\  John",  John^)  b. 
Greensboro,  Ga..  Aug.  27,  1796,  d.  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  Mar.  9, 
1870.  He  moved  to  Columbus,  Ga.,  when  the  lots  were  being 
surveyed  and  platted,  m.  first,  Emeline  Con.ant,  who  d.  1852. 
M.  secondly  Aug.  5,  1853  Sarah  A.  Middletox.  b.  Tune  IS, 
1830,  d.  Aug.  10,  1898.    Children  by  first  wife: 

i.       LoviCK,  b.  May,  1841. 

ii.  AiX)Kzo  CI.AV,  b.  Jan.  1843.  M.  Feb.  4,  1875,  Miss  Mary  C;.  Brown, 
He  is  a  retired  engineer  and  land  owner,  living  in  Florence,  S. 
C.  Children:  1.  George  Alonzo.  b.  Julv  2.  1877.  2.  John  H'il- 
liam,  b.  Dec.  21,  1879,  and  3,  Max  Gordon,  b.  May  21,  1882. 


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iii.  James  Lemuel,  b.  Apr.  20,  1860.  At  Columbus,  Ga.  is  a  machinist 
and  a  member  of  tlie  Episcopal  Church.  He  m.  Feb.  28,  1889, 
Eugenia  Patrick,  b.  Feb.  14,  1865.  ,One  child:  Frank  Patrick,  b. 
Atlanta,  Ga.  Oct.  8,  1890,  m.  Apr.  27,  1913,  Myrtle  Johnson. 
Is  a  salesman  in  Atlanta;  is  a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church. 

40.  WlLLl.^M''  Jepson    {WiUhm'\  Samuel*.  William^,  John'-,  John^) 
b.  in  Boston,  Aug.  28,  1806,  m.  Nov.  2,  1828,  Irene  Williston. 

Children : 

i.       William,  b.  1821,  d.  Detroit,  Mich.,  Jan.  29,  1866. 

ii.      Irene,  b.  Aug.  17,  1831. 

iii.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  1833,  m.  Edward  T.  Gray.  Children:  1,  Eliza- 
beth Taylor.  2,  Alice  Maud.  3,  EiJaicrd  T.  Both  daughters  are 
practicing  physicians. 

iv.     Sarah  Ann,  d.  young. 

V.      Emma  Frances,  d.  young. 

79.  vi.     George  Edwin,  b.  Nov.  11,  1842. 

41.  S.'\muel"  Jepsox    [Pi'illiatif' .  Samuel*,   Willtam'^,  John'-,  John}) 

b.  in  Boston,  Nov.  22,  1808.  d.  Aug.  1877.  m.  first  May  1831, 
Elizabeth  Greenwood,  who  d.  1832.  m.  secondly  Mar.  21, 
1833,  H.-\RRIET  W.ALKER,  b.  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  May  17, 
1807,  d.  July  15,  1894: 

Children  by  first  wife: 

80.  i.       Samuel  G.,  b.  April  12,  1832. 

Children  by  second  wife : 
ii.      Harriet  E.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1834;  m.  1865,  Stephen  Putnam,  b.  Nov.  27, 

1806. 
iii.     William   Henry,  b.  Dec.  21,   1835,  d.   Sept.  20,   1909;   m.  Aug.   31, 

1876,  Annie  Buchanan  from  Scotland  who  d.  Jan.  8,  1909.     No 

children.     Lived  in  Everett,  Mass.     Was  a  corporal  in  the  First 
,  Massachusetts   Regiment.     Served   three  years.     Wounded   in   the 

battle  of  Bull  Run  and   never  fully  recovered. 

81.  iv.     Charles  E.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1839. 

V.  Adelaide  Lucinda,  b.  Jan.  9,  1843,  m.  Dec.  2,  1868,  Roger  Sherman 
Mackintosh,  b.  Sept.  6,  1846.  Child:  Gertrude  il..  b.  May  16, 
1871. 

vi.  Otis  Bryant,  b.  June  30,  1844,  in  Boston,  Mass.  m.  first  Anne  J. 
Dalton;  secondly  Annjv  Godfrey  Howes,  Jan.  1,  1884.  She  d. 
Jan.  23,  1914.     Child  by  first  wife,  Anna  Louise. 

vii.  Howard  E.,  b.  Dec.  10,  1848,  Boston,  Mass.,  m.  1868,  Fannie  F.  Bar- 
rows.    One  child,  Lillian,  d.  1877,  a.  8  yrs. 

42.  Joseph   Buckminster''  Jepson    {W iU'iaitr' ,  Samuel*.  William^. 

John'',  John')  b.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Mar.  5,  1913,  d.  Mar.  3, 
1871.  m.  Sept.  3,  1835,  Susan  Ingram,  b.  Thomaston, 
Maine,  January  10,  1815,  d.  Mar.  30,  1889. 


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Children : 

i.       Joseph  B.,  d.  voung. 

ii.      InSEPH  C,  b. ,  d.  June  18,  1901,  m.  Dec.  25,  1870,  Violet -Smith, 

had  one  child,  Frank,  b.  Nov.  28,  1871,  d.  Mar.  11,  1912,  m.  EDITH 
Sibley  of  Charleston  and  had  one  son,  Percy  W.  Joseph  C.  was 
a  member  of  Co.  I,  32d  Mass.  Infantry  and  served  three  years 
in  the  Civil   War.     His  wife  survives  him. 

iii.     Franklin,  d.  young. 

iv.     Francis  Edgar,  d.  young. 

v.      Susan   Frances,  d.  young. 

vi.  Susan  Elizabeth,  m.  \Vm.  F.  Handy,  b.  in  Bedford;  July  13,  1845, 
d.  June  9,  1885.  Child:  Leila,  b.  Charleston,  Mass.,  Sept.  29, 
1882,  m.  Nov.  26,  1902,  Arthur  W.  Helmund,  b.  in  N.  Attleboro, 
May  19,  1875.     Children,  Violet  A.,  Arthur  G.,  Paul   D. 

vii.    Alverdo,  d.  in  infancy. 

43.  Orex"  Jepson    {Forrest'',  John*.  Mitiili'.  John'.  John^)   b.  Feb. 

25.  1815,  at  Ashfield,  Mass.  m.  Feb.  18,  18.53.  Lydia  C.anter- 
BiRY.  b.  Feb.  18.  1823.  at  Ware,  Mass. 

Chililren : 

82.  i.       Henry  M.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1845. 

ii.      Sarah   E.,   b.   Dec.   20,   1845,   at    Belchertown,   Mass.,    now    living   at 

same  place, 
iii.     Harriet  A.,  b.  Sept.  14,  1847,  Belchertown,  m.  Henry  M.  Aldrich. 

Children,  all  b.  at  Belchertown:  1,  William  E.,  b.  Apr.  22,  1867. 

2.  Jennie  M.,  b.  Jan.  25,  1869.     3,  Mahel  I.,  h.  .^ug.  30,  1873.     4, 

C.  Royal,  b.  March  27,  1875.     5.  Lean  II..  b.  .'\ug.   11.   1887.  and 
6,  Harry,  b.  Aug.  25,  1891. 
iv.     D.*viD  D.,  b.  June  29,   1849,   at  Belchertown,   where   he   now   resides, 

unm. 
v.      Jane  E.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1854  at  Belchertown.  m.  Foster  M.  Kelsey. 

44.  George  R."  Jepson   { Forrest',  John*.  Mirah^.  John-.  John')   b. 

Feb.  19,  1818.  d.  1880.  m.  M.ary  E.  Le.-xch. 

Children : 

i.       Lyman  R.,  b.  Jan.  1845,  d.  Mar.  1910. 

ii.  Melvin.\  E.,  b.  1848,  m.  1871,  Myron  Winslow  Graves.  Children: 
1,  Letvis  Eugene,  b.  1873,  m.  Flora  Hall,  June  1,  1902.  One 
child,  Margaret  Mebbler  Graves,  b.  Mar.  19,  1903.  2,  Cyrus 
Monroe,  b.  June  4,  1877,  m.  Josie  Thompson,  Aug.  1907.  3,  Mary 
Edilh,  b.  .'\ptil  5,  1880,  m.  July,  1907,  Bert  Harkus  Pearson.  4, 
Harley  Howard  Graves,  b.  Apr.  21,  1880,  d.  March,  1887.  5, 
Anna  Marian  Graves,  b.  July  5,   1888. 

iii.     Lewis  Eugene,  b.  1850;  drowned  1880. 

45.  Seth    Skars"  Jipson    (CymU'.  John*.  Mienh'.  John-.  John')    b. 

Winfield.  New  York.  April  21.  1823.  d.  Apr.  9,  1855,  m.  Apr. 
6,  1843,  Kachei.  Hoi.comb,  b.  Nov.  9,  1S24,  d.  Dec.  1.  1900. 
\Va,s  a  cooper  and  owind  to  the  heavy  timber  in  Monroe  County, 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Mich.,  which  he  could  utilize  in  his  business,  he  removed  to  that 
county  from  N(.'w  York  State.'    Was  killed  by  a  falling  tree. 

Children : 

83.  i.       WlLLUM  S.,  b.  July  17,  1844. 

ii.      Merton  W.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1845,  d.  Dec.  5,  1846. 

iii.     Josephine    F.,   b.   May  24,   1848,   m.   Dec.    12,     1867,    Alphonso    B. 

Smith,  and  now  resides  in  Drtroit,  Mich.     Child:  Foster  J.,  b. 

March  8,  1887. 

iv.     H.ARRIET   E.,   b.    Sept.    25,    1854,    d.   Aug.    22,    1883,    m.   Jan.    1,    1873, 

Frank  R.  Shep.^rd.     Children:  1,  Lynn;  2,  Emma;  3,   Theodore; 

4,  Bonny;  5,  Kittie. 

46.  Samuel  Fayette"  Jipsox  (CyraU'.  John*.  Micah\  John-,  John'') 
h.  in  Winfleld,  N.  Y.,  August  6,  1825,  m.  Sept.  26,  1847,  Lucy 
Jane,  dau.  of  Josiah  Shaw,  b.  in  Yates,  New  York,  Mar.  29, 
1829.  d.  in  Everly,  Iowa,  June  24,  1907.  Removed  with  his 
parents  to  the  old  home  in  Goshen,  Mass.,  in  1828,  and  to 
Niagara  County,  New  York,  in  1837;  and  in  1851  to  Dayton, 
Green  Co.,  Wisconsin.  Bought  a  farm  in  Attica,  Wis.,  in  1867; 
went  to  California  in  1888,  remaining  a  short  time,  then  back 
to  the  old  farm  in  Wisconsin,  which  he  sold  and  removed  to 
Iowa,  where  he  now  spends  a  portion  of  his  time  with  his  son. 
He  has  been,  for  many  years,  a  consistent  member  of  the  M.  E. 
Church,  is  a  republican  and  a  strong  temperance  man.  Endowed 
with  a  remarkable  memory,  he  at  the  age  of  ninety-two  can  ac- 
curately describe  events  which  occurred  in  the  years  from  1830 
down  to  the  present  time.  In  the  community  in  which  he  spent 
the  frreatest  portion  of  his  life,  he  always  fought  intemperance 
and  all  forms  of  evil.  Now,  in  the  evening  of  life,  with  a,  clear 
mind  and  memory,  ht  takes  an  active  interest  in  the  present  and 
enjojs  review  ing  events  which  cover  a  period  of  eighty-five  years. 

Children : 

i.  Alice  Jane,  b.  Sept.  6,  1848,  d.  Nov.  24,  1890,  m.  Nov.  9,  1869,  Gran- 
ville W.  Smith  and  lived  on  a  farm  near  Dayton,  Wis.  until 
1888,  when  she  removed  with  her  family  to  Lincoln,  Placer 
County,  California,  where  she  died.  Children:  1,  Mary,  h.  Jan. 
14,  1871,  m.  Oct.  1,  1890,  Clarence  Newcomb  and  now  resides  at 
Napa,  Calif.,  had  five  children,  a,  Alice,  b.  Sept  26,  1892;  b, 
Charles,  b.  Sept.  14,  1896,  d.  Sept.  15,  1896;  c,  Madge,  b.  Dec. 
24.  1902;  d,  Olive,  b.  May  28,  1904,  d.  Aug.  26,  1904;  e,  Dorothy, 
b.  June  3,  1906.  2,  Milan  F.,  b.  June  6,  1876,  now  married  and 
lives  in  Portland,  Oregon.  3,  Joseph,  b.  Mar.  12,  1887;  now  lives 
in  Seattle. 

ii.      A  daughter;  d.  in  infancy. 

84.  iii.     Norman  Josiah,  b.  Feb.  18,  1861. 

85.  iv.     Norton  William,  b.  Mar.  12,  1865. 
v.      Clark,  b.  1867,  d.  at  a.  of  8  months. 


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JEPSON  FAMILY 


47.  Almon"  JiF'SON  [It'cbstcr".  Joseph* .  Micah\  John'.  John^)  b. 
Jan.  5,  1806,  in  Madison,  N.  Y.  d".  Grand  Rnpids,  Michigan, 
m.  first  in  1841,  at  Ada,  Michigan,  Minerva  F"oster,  who  d. 
Aug.,  1856.  He  married  secondly:  Feb.  18,  1858,  Mira  Boyd 
of  Grand  Rapids.  She  d.  1888.  He  removed  to  Ada,  Michi- 
gan in  1837  and  hou»iht  a  farm.  Four  years  later  he  bought  a 
largier  one  near  Grand  Rapids. 

Children  by  first  wife: 
i.       Maria   A.,  b.   Feb.    14,   1842,  d.   Oct.   2,   1891.     Near   .Ada,   Michigan, 


AI.MOX  JIPSON 


MARIA  JIPSON  BECKWITH 


taught    school    for    several    years;     m.   January    12,    1871,   Wil- 
liam G.  Beckwith  of   Grand   Rapids.     Children:   1,  Minerva;  2, 
Cora  J.;  3,  Perry;  4,  Angie.     All  but  Perry  are  living. 
Ellen,  b.  May,  1845,  d.  Aug.  25,  1856. 


48.  Manls"  JlPSON  {H'ebster',  Joseph*.  Micah^,  John^,  John^)  b.  in 
Madison,  New  York,  Jan.  11,  1810,  d.  at  Croton,  Mich.,  Oct. 
12,  187,?.  m.  Dec.  4,  18.32,  Phebe  Jane  Price,  b.  Jan.  18, 
1810,  at  i*uhurn,  New  York,  d.  June  23,  1865,  at  Croton, 
Mich.  He  removed  first  to  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  next  to  Kent 
Co.,  resided  there  twenty  years,  then  went  to  Newaygo  County. 


Childn-n  : 

Helen  Maria,  b.  Dec.  5,  1833,  d.  Oct.  17,  1835. 

James  Henry,  b.  Nov.  11,  1836,  at  Jackson,  Mich.,  d.  Jan.  24,  1837. 

Oren,  b.  Feb.  25,  1838,  at  Ada,  Mich.,  d.  June  7,  1853,  at  Ada. 

Jennie  E.,  b.  Jan.  18,  1841,  m.  May  11,  1869,  at  Croton,  Mich.,  War- 
ren B.  Wll.l.ET,  who  d.  Jan.  16,  1888,  at  Obrien,  CJeorgia,  a.  50 
years  and  six  months.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools, 
later  a  dressmaker  and  kept  house  for  her  father,  until  her  mar- 
riage.    Now  lives  in  Scotville,  Mich.    Attends  the  M.  E.  Church. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


In  the  year  1905,  she  met  with  a  street  car  accident  in  Chicago, 
which  made  her  a  permanent  cripple  and  she  now  walks  with 
crutches.     Has  no  children. 

V.  Helen  L.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1843,  m.  first  Sept.  1862,  Hemry  W.  Carpenter, 
who  d.  in  the  Civil  War,  June  10,  186+  at  Alexandria,  Virginia, 
m.  secondly,  D.^wsoN  Nelson  July  4,  1867.  She  is  now  a  widow 
and  lives  in  Scotville,  Michigan.  Children:  1,  Frederick  M.,  b. 
Croton,  May  19,  1868;  2,  George  M.,  b.  Jan.  8,  1870;  3,  Albert 
E.,  b.  Feb.  1,  1872;  4,  Lottie  E.,  b.  March  28,  1875,  m.  Nelson 
Smith;  5,  Darwin  Fleetwood,  b.  June  13,  1878;  6,  Roy  L.,  b.  July 
17,  1880;  7,  Rohin  A.,  b.  May  28,  1883.  8,  Ernest  IV.,  b.  May 
■  10,  1887. 

vi.  Elizabeth  M.,  b.  Oct.  22,  1846,  at  Ada,  Mich.,  m.  May  1,  1866,  Asa 
Carpenter,  b.  Sept.  8,  1834,  at  Niagara,  Canada.  He  was  a  lum- 
ber man  but  later  an  artist  and  sculptor.  They  reside  in  Scott- 
ville,  Mich.  In  1906,  she  was  thrown  from  a  carriage  and  sus- 
tained an  injury  from  which  she  never  wholly  recovered.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  Jennie  May  M..  b.  April  18,  1867,  d.  Feb.  18,  1897,  m. 
April  7,  18?7,  Oliver  L.  Fleck.  2,  Arthur  Randolph,  b.  Dec.  9, 
1869. 

vii.  George  Webster,  b.  Oct.  4,  1848,  at  Ada,  Mich.,  m.  Jan.  4,  1879, 
Miss  Anna  E.  Stark  at  Crystal  Valley,  Mich.  He  is  a  mechan- 
ical engineer  and  is  a  superintendent  in  the  Continental  Motor 
Works  at  Muskegon,  Mich, 

49.  Orrin  Webster"  Jipson  (H'cbster'.  Joseph*,  Micah',  John-. 
John*)  b.  in  Madison  County,  New  York,  Mar.  4,  1814,  d. 
Blissfield.  Mich.,  Mar.  8th,  1875,  m.  July  18,  1849,  Jane  Bly 
at  Eaton,  Madison  Co.,  New  York.  His  father  having  died 
while  he  was  very  young,  he  at  the  age  of  six  years  was  inden- 
tured to  learn  a  trade,  becoming  an  expert  iron  worker,  finally 
becoming  a  machinist.  During  the  early  thirties  he  came  via  the 
lakes  to  Detroit,  Mich.,  later  going  from  Detroit  on  foot,  before 
the  railroad  wrs  constructed,  to  Battle  Creek,  which  at  that  time 
was  an  important  point  for  manufacturing  ot  agricultural  imple- 
ments. After  spending  a  few  months  in  Battle  Creek,  he  went 
through  the  present  location  of  Chicago,  an  insignificant  swampy 
town,  to  Springfield,  111.,  where  he  engaged  with  an  extensive 
manufacturer  of  agricultural  implements,  where  he  spent  some 
two  years;  going  from  Springfield  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he 
again  engaged  with  a  manufacturer  of  implements  for  three 
years,  returning  via  New  Orleans  to  New  York,  by  sailing  ves- 
sel, soon  going  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where  he  contracted  with 
the  Duryea  &  Forsyth  Scale  &  Safe  Company  to  manufacture  all 
scales  for  their  trade,  which  contract  was  in  force  for  several 
years.  During  this  time,  by  study  with  a  mechanical  engineer, 
a  Polander,  he  perfected  his  knowledge  in  mechanics  and  draft- 
ng;  soon  after  this  the  weightlocks  of  the  Erie  Canal  at  Roches- 
ter, became  badly  out  of  order.  He  was  employed  to  superin- 
tend the  reconstruction  of  the  weighing  machinery  with  eminent 


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JEPSON  FAMILY 


success  and  satisfaction  to  those  interested.  Jll'SON  received  a 
patent  from  the  Department  at  Washington  for  a  perfected  form 
of  scale,  which  later  was  developed  into  the  scale  with  a  tare 
beam.  He  also  introduced  into  the  scale  works  a  number  of  auto- 
matic devices  for  the  perfection  of  uniform  parts,  the  finishing 
and  knotching  of  scale  be^ms  being  formerly  done  by  hand  with 
file,  resulting  in  anything  but  uniform  spacing,  causing  imper- 
fect weighing.  Arranging  a  metal  planer  to  automatically  plane 
off  the  tops  of  scale  beams,  several  dozen  of  them  were  finished 
at  one  time.  The  knotching  being  done  on  the  same  machine, 
the  spacing  being  automatically  alike.  During  the  time  he  was 
engaged  with  the  Duryea  &  Forsyth  Company  he  entered  into 
an  agreement  with  his  brother  Henry  to  furnish  means  to  build 
and  equip  a  new  Lansing  House,  hotel,  at  Lansing,  Mich., 
which  included  a  line  of  stages  to  Detroit,  IXLison  and  other 
places.  Later  the  hotel  was  disposed  of,  the  proceeds  being  in- 
vested in  a  large  farm  three  miles  east  of  Lansing  and  adjoining 
the  state  farm  of  the  Agricultural  College.  In  the  spring  of 
1859  that  farm  was  exchanged  for  a  farm  with  flouring  and 
lumber  mills,  one-half  mile  north  of  Blissfield,  Lenawee  Co., 
Mich.  In  the  fall  of  1859  he,  with  his  family,  left  Rochester, 
N.  Y.  for  the  farm  at  Blissfield,  ]\Iich.,  where  farming  opera- 
tions and  manufacture  of  lumber  on  a  large  scale  for  those  days 
was  carried  on.  The  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1871,  after 
which  he  continued  farming  successfully,  until  his  death. 

Children: 

Webster  Charles,  b.  Sept.  21,  1852,  in  Rochester,  New 
York,  d.  at  Watkins,  N.  Y.,  Apr.  25,  1916.  m.  Jan.  10, 
1882,  Cora  A.  Carter  of  Ogden,  Mich.  In  1860  the 
family  moved  to  Blissfield,  Lenawee  Co.,  Mich.,  upon  a 
farm  one-half  mile  north  of  the  villatre.  In  1865  attended 
a  college  at  Hillsdale,  Mich.  In  1870  attended  one  year 
the  Michiiran  Agricultural  College,  at  Lan'^ine,  Mich.  In 
1871,  entered  an  engineer's  office  at  Toledo,  Ohio.  After 
one  year's  service,  assisted  the  engineer  in  charge  of  the 
construction  of  the  Penrsvlvania  R.  R.  in  Toledo,  Ohio. 
In  1872  did  land  surve\ing  and  published  maps  of  Bliss- 
field and  surrounding  townships.  In  1872  entered  Cornell 
Universitv.  special  in  Architecture  and  Engineering.  In 
March,  1875,  father  departed  this  life  and  then  took 
charge  of  a  farm  of  160  acres.  During  the  depression  of 
1877,  farming  being  rather  discouraging,  rented  the  farm 
and  later  took  a  position  at  Georgetown,  Colorado,  as  a 
deputy  U.  S.  .Mineral  Surveyor.  Later  taking  a  position 
with  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Rv.  as  draftsman.     Later 


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took  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  division  engineer  on  con- 
struction of  a  branch  with  office  at  Durango,  Colo.  On 
June  21,  1885,  opened  a  bank  in  Blissfield,  Mich.,  with 
Russel  C.  Carter  as  partner.  On  March  1st,  1900,  the 
partnership  was  dissolved  and  the  banking  business  was  in- 
corporated under  the  laws  of  Michigan,  where  the  bus- 
iness has  been  successfully  continued  up  to  this  time,  being 
elected  president  of  the  bank  upon  the  decease  of  Mr.  Car- 
ter in  1895. 
ii.  Mary  Adele,  b.  Rochester,  New  York,  Nov.  11,  1859,  m.  in  Spring 
of  1895,  to  Webster  E.  Tooke,  residing  for  some  years  in  Ham- 
ilton, New  York,  where  Mr.  Tooke  published  the  Hamilton  Re- 
publican, later  being  located  in  various  cities  of  the  south,  middle 
west  and  middle  states;   lately  residing  in  Cory,  Pa. 

50.  Henry''  Jipson  (M'ebster',  Joseph*,  Micnh^,  John',  John^)  b. 
May  29,  1818,  in  State  of  New  York.  d.  May  28,  1888,  at  Lc 
Roy,  Barton  Co.,  Mo.  m.  1843,  Lucv  Davis,  who  d.  at  Ft. 
Scott,  Kansas  in  1899.  After  reaching  his  majority  he  went  to 
Mich.,  and  settled  in  De  Witt,  Clinton  Co.  When  the  State  Cap- 
ital was  removed  from  Detroit  to  Lansing,  Mich.,  he  was  one  of 
the  first  to  go  to  the  new  town  site,  which  was  situated  in  the 
forest.  He  built  the  first  "shanty"  in  what  wes  later  known  as 
Middle  Town  and  the  sale  of  the  town  lots  was  made  from  his 
front  porch.  The  lots  were  sold  before  the  public  knew  where 
the  Capitol  building  was  to  be  located  and  was  attended  by  hun- 
dreds of  people  from  all  over  the-  U.  S.  One  of  the  lots  he 
bought  was  diagonally  across  the  street  from  the  capitol  block 
— (Old  Cap  Building).  He  built  the  first  Capitol  Building  in 
Lansing,  also  the  first  State  Office.  He  also  built  that  year  on 
the  lot  across  the  street  from  the  capitol  a  hotel  called  the 
"Lansing  House"  and  had  it  ready  for  occupancy  when  the  first 
legislature  convened.  This  was  the  "Stage  house"  and  the  lead- 
ing hotel  for  a  great  many  years  and  he  learned  to  know  nearly 
all  the  state  celebrities.  For  a  year  or  two  after  the  hotel  was 
opened,  venison  steak  was  served  for  breakfkast,  he  having  a 
contract  with  an  Indian  Chief  to  bring  him  a  deer  every  other 
morning  and  the  Indian  never  failed.  All  the  hardware  and 
lumber  for  these  buildings  was  hauled  by  oxen  from  Detroit  and 
Jackson,  60  and  40  miles  away,  and  over  the  worst  of  "cordu- 
roy" roads.  He  owned  and  ran  the  hotel  several  years  and  about 
1858  his  brother  Orrin  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  bought  a  half  in- 
terest. They  sold  the  hotel  about  the  year  1860  and  embarked 
in  the  milling  business  at  Blissfield,  Mich.  In  1883  he  went 
with  his  famih-  to  Le  Roy,  Mo.,  where  he  had  a  five  hundred 
acre  ranch. 


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Children : 
i.       Ada,  b.  March  7,  1846. 
ii.      James. 
iii.     Georce  Henry. 
iv.     Flora  Bell,  b.  Oct.  5,  1852,  m.  Jan.  2i.  1907,  Am.v/aah 

De  Estine  Ellis,  b.  Plessis,  Nvw  York,  Nov.  16,  1845, 

and  resides  in  Blissfield,  Mich. 

51.     George  W."  Jepson   (HarTcy''.  DuviiP.  Mic/ih\  Jolur.  John^) 
b.  in  Pownal,  Vermont,  Sept.    9,  1822,    d.  Dec.   13,    1876,  m. 

1848,  Mary  Bratton  of  Stamford,  \^t.,  b. ,  d.  July  20, 

1873.  After  his  marriage,  George  W.  lived  in  Stamford  three 
years,  then  moved  to  Colerain,  Mass.,  bought  a  farm  and  lived 
there  until  1868,  then  sold  his  farm  and  bought  another  in  Hali- 
fax, Vt.  He  and  wife  were  active  members  of  the  Baptist 
Church  for  many  years  and  kept  the  faith  to  the  end.  In  addi- 
tion to  farming  he  was  also  a  carpenter. 

Children : 

86.  i.       George  F.,  b.  March  13,  1851. 

ii.  Eleanor  F.,  b.  Miarch  20,  1852,  m.  F.  T.  Miner  of  W.  Halifax,  Vt. 
Two  children,  Lillian  Jepson  Miner  and  Nora,  who  died  young. 

iii.  Arimina  B.,  March  30,  1854,  m.  L.  L.  Whitney,  an  expressman 
of  Brattleboro,  Vt.    Three  children.  Lorenz,  Luella  and  Freeman. 

iv.  Eveline  M.,  b.  April  29,  1855,  m.  Albert  Goodrich  of  Stamford, 
Vt.  He  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War.  After  the  war  he  set- 
tled on  his  father's  farm  and  lived  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Three  chlidren:  1,  Clarence,  now  fighting  in  the  trenches  in 
France.  2,  Ena,  m.  George  Davis  of  Bennington,  Vt,  a  suc- 
cessful vegetable  gardener.  3,  HoiuarJ,  now  living  with  his 
mother  and  caring  for  the  farm. 

87.  v.      Lafayette,  b.  April   17,  1856. 

vi.     Mary  E.,   b.   March   22,    1859,   m.    Charles   Starkey   of   Brattlehoro. 

Vl    No  children, 
vli.    Laura  A.,  b.  June  24,  1861,  m.  Cliff  Tucker  of  Hudson;  no  children. 

viii.  Elbert  B.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1863,  Colerain,  Mass.,  m.  April  19,  1908,  Miss 
Catherine  Duncan.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  was  employed  in  the 
gingham  mills  in  Adams,  Mass.:  later  became  a  tanner  and  cur- 
rier in  Oswego,  N.  V.,  then  foreman  of  a  tannery  in  Roulette, 
Pa.;  then  went  to  Alaska,  returned  in  1889,  became  foreman  of 
Smelter  works  in  Arizona;  later  became  proprietor  of  a  cafe; 
afterward  selling  out  and  becoming  foreman  in  tannery  and  is 
now  located  in  Hudson.  Member  of  Masonic  Order,  32d  degree; 
also  of  Nobles  of  Mystic  Shrine.     .No  chlidren, — one  step  son. 

ix.  Elmer  A.,  b.  OcL  12,  1866,  at  Colerain,  Mass.,  m.  at  N.  Adams, 
Mass.,  Miss  Bush;  is  a  foreman  at  the  Windsor  Print  Works  at 
N.  Adams.  Children:  1,  Dora;  2,  l.aiirrnrc,  3,  I'enicr,  and  4, 
Innes. 


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52.  Myron"   Jepson    {Hnnry^,  David*.  Micah\  John.'-  John^)    b. 

Pownal,  Vt.,  Dec.  24,  1825.  d. .     m.  Dec.   15,   1849  at 

Pownal,  Sallv  Ann  Sweet.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer  near 
Pownal. 

Children : 

i.       Albert  M.,  b.  June   11,    1859;   is   a  farmer  and   dealer   in   sand   and 
gravel  at  Pownal.     m.  Dec.   13,   1879,  Clara  Estes;   no  children, 
ii.     Mary,  m.  David  Danforth. 
iii.     Anna,  m.  Aug.  23,  1871,  Reuben  Jepson,  son  of  John   (see  No.  54). 

53.  Harvey'*  Jepson    {Harvey",  David*.   Micali\  John-.  John^)    b 

Sept.  4,  1827,  m.  Electa  Irwin.    Child,  Harvey. 

54.  John"  Jepson  {Harvey''.  David*,  Micah'.  John-,  John')  b.  Mar. 

14,  1829,  d.  Apr.  3,  1901.  m.  first  Mar.  11,  1848,  Aurelia 
HoRTON ;  m.  secondly  May  14,  1881,  Rozelta  Hunter  Rood, 
b.  Aug.  4,  1845.     He  was  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Pownal,  Vt. 

Children  by  first  wife: 

i.  Reuben,  b.  in  Pownal,  Aug.  27,  1850,  d.  Feb.  10,  1910,  m.  Aug.  23, 
1871,  Anna  Jepson.  Had  two  children,  Arthur,  b.  Aug.  13,  1872, 
d.  Jan.  7,  1895,  and  Alice  M.,  m.  Dec.  28,  1894,  a  Mr.  Pellerin  of 
Williamstown,  Mass. 

Children  by  second  wife: 
Ida  a.,  b.  March  9,  1856,  d.  May,  1872. 
Levi  A.,  b.  May  8,  1882,  d.  Jan.  22,  1908. 
v.     Ida  May,  b.  Oct.  6,  1884,  m.  June  10,  1902,  Arthur  A.  Houghtai.inc, 
b.  Sept.  13,  1879  and  lives  in  Pownal,  Vermont. 

55.  Joel"  Jepson   {Harvey-',  David*.  Micah\  John",  John')  b.  May 

3,  1838,  d. ,  m.  Aug.  25,  1859,  Julia  Eliza  Morgan. 

He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  enlisting  while  in  his  teens; 
was  wounded  several  times,  but  remained  in  service  until  the 
close  of  the  war.     One  child:  Carrie. 


56.  James  B.'^tes''  Jepson  {David",  David*.  Micah^,  John-,  John*) 
b.  in  Pownal,  Vt.,  May  27,  1829,  d.  Saranac,  Mich,  Apr.,  1893, 
m.  May,  28,  1849,  Mariam  Kimball,  b.  Oct.  27,  1830.  They 
moved  from  Pownal,  Vt.,  to  Ionia,  Mich.,  and  bought  and 
cleared  a  farm,  in  1849,  where  he  lived  until  sixty  years  of  age, 
then  moved  to  Saranac. 

Children : 
.  i.      Jane  E.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1851,  in  Easton,  Mich.,  m.  March  30,  1872,  Al- 


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BERT  Brown,  b.  in  Keene,  Mich.,  March  30,  1S49.  Children:  1, 
Delbert  E.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1874,  is  a  jeweler  in  Idaho.  2,  Kitlie,  b. 
Juy  24,  1877,  d.  Aug.  25,  1898.  3,  Rohert,  b.  Aug.  31,  1879.  4, 
Grace,  b.  May  5,  1881,  m.  March  24,  1910,  Arthur  Darrow.  5, 
Sheldon,  b.  March  21,  1881.     6,  Mildred,  b.  May  17,  1891. 

ii.      CoR.\  Bei-I.,  b.  May  31,  1854,  is  now  caring  for  her  aged  mother. 

iii.  Noah  H.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1856,  m.  April  22,  1881,  Rose  Harris,  b.  Camp- 
bell, Mich.     One  child:  Eririn,  b.  in  Keene,  June,  1882. 

88.  iv.     Edson  a.,  b.  Aug.  22,  1859. 

89.  V.      Merton  K.,  b.  Nov.  9,   1861. 

vi.  Mary  L.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1886,  m.  Jan.  1,  1889,  .^i.i.em  Cobb,  of  Saranac; 
Children:  I,  Allen,  b.  May  2,   1890;  2,  George,  b.  May   17,   1907. 

57.  Andrew  J.''  Jepsox  (Dviv'ut'',  David'.  Micair,  Johir.  John^)  h. 
in  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  July  26,  1833,  m.  Feb.  28,  1859,  Eliz.a 
J.  Spr.agle  of  Easton,  Mich.  b.  Mt.  Koenifj,  New  York,  Mar. 

8,   1839,  d. in  Campbell,  Mich.     Andrew  J.  Jepson 

moved  to  Michigan  when  a  young  man,  bought  a  farm  in  Grat- 
ton  and  lived  there  a  few  years,  then  moved  to  Ionia  County, 
near  Saranac  and  bought  a  farm  ;  later  bought  a  farm  near  Camp- 
bell, where  his  wife  died.  He  now  spends  most  of  his  time 
with  his  dau.  H.arriett,  in  Lowell,  Michigan.  Was  class  lead- 
er and  Sunday  School  superintendent  for  many  years  in  the  M. 
E.  Church  and  has  always  been  a  very  strong  temperance  man. 

Children: 

i.       Nelson  B.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1860,  in  Gratton,  Mich.,  d.  1876,  in  Campbell. 

ii.  Elmer  E.,  b.  in  Easton,  Aug.  26,  1862,  m.  April  23,  1894,  in  Clarks- 
ville,  Mich.,  Veronica  W.  Braendle,  b.  Wellsley,  Ont.,  April  23, 
1873.  Children:  1,  Mildred  E.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1898;  2,  Mabel  B.,  h. 
Aug.  11,  1900;  3,  Frances  L.,  b.  March  6,  1904;  4,  Myrtle,  b.  May 
16,  1909;  5,  Ruth  E.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1911. 

iii.  Harriet,  b.  in  Easton,  Aug.  16,  1865,  m.  Aug.,  1902,  Charley  Dunn, 
b.  Easton,  Mich.,  Aug.  7,  1867.  Child:  Elinor  Ah'tra.  b.  Clarks- 
ville,  May  7,  1906. 

iv.     Hui.dah  M.,  b.  June  19,   1867,  m.  Cai.Vin  Chirch  of  Clarksville. 

v.  Dora  H.,  b.  April  19,  1869,  m.  Dec.  23,  I89I,  Judson  R.  Warner,  b. 
Oakfield,  N.  V.,  Oct.  8,  1860,  d  Cadillac,  Dec.  23,  1911.  Children: 
1,  Maxv.ell  D.,  b.  in  Bowne,  Mich.,  Oct.  25,  1892;  2,  Clifford  L.. 
b.  in  Bowne,  March  29,  1895;  3,  Eliza  Geneva,  b.  Lowell,  Mav 
19,  1902. 

vi.  Minnie  B.,  b.  May  17,  1872,  m.  in  Clarksville,  Mich.,  Dec.  31,  1896, 
George  M.  Welton,  b.  in  Caledonia,  Mich.,  June  6,  1870.  Chil- 
dren: 1,  l.loyd,  b.  May  2,  1898;  2,  Gerald  F.,  h.  April  19,  1900; 
3,  Andrew  £.,  b.  May  19,  1902;  4,  Audrey  M.,  b.  April  17,  1910. 

vii.  David  A.,  b.  Sept  21,  1874,  m.  Sept.  5,  1905,  Dacola  Alderman. 
David  is  a  graduate  of  Paucher's  Business  College  of  Ionia;  was 
bookkeeper  for  several  years  at  Ionia  Reformatory  and  Hospi- 
tal; later  in  the  grocery  business;  now  with  Ionia  Hardware 
Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church.  One  child: 
Lucius,  b.  Oct.  3,   1909. 


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58.  Henry  or  James  Henry''  Jepson  (James-',  Dm<id*,  Micah^. 
John-John^)  b.  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  Sept.  30,  1838,  d.  Mar.  20. 
1886.  m.  first  Clarissa  Sabrina  Knapp;  m.  secondly  Apr.  21, 
1869,  N.AOMi  B.  Sargent,  b.  May  9,  1836,  d.  Apr.  1,  1907. 
He  lived  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  during  the  first  years  of  his  life,  but 
after  his  second  marriage  resided  in  Warner,  New  Hampshire. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 

Child  by  first  wife: 
i.      George. 

Children  by  second  wife: 
ii.  James,  b.  Jan.  17,  1870  in  \Marner,  N.  H.,  m.  first  feept.  14,  1893,  Mat- 
tie  M.  Taylor;  ra.  secondly,  Oct.  11,  1899,  Beatrice  L.  Roberts, 
b.  July  9,  1873.  James  is  a  cabinet  maker,  lived  in  Warner  and 
Webster,  N.  H.  twenty-one  years;  now  lives  in  Concord,  N.  H., 
belongs  to  Society  of  American  Meclianics  and  Knights  of  Malta. 
Is  a  veteran  fireman  and  special  reserve  police  officer  for  ten 
years. 

Child  by  first  marriage: 

Clara  B.,  b.  Feb.  11,  1894. 

iii.     Alvin  a.,  b.  July  26,  1871,  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  m.  May  26, 
1894,  May  Adams,  b.  Sutton,  N.  H.,  Apr.  30,  1870.    He 
lived  in  Sutton,  N.  H.,  for  ten  years  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing.    Was    one    of    the    select    men    for    three    years.     He    is 
now  living  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  and  has  been  one  of  the  se- 
lect men  there.     Is  engaged  in  lumbering  and  has  a  general 
store.     Is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  and  Grange. 
Children : 
1.  Ruth,  A.,  b.  Oc.  4,  1900.     2,  John  H.,  b.  June  13,  1907. 
vi.     Hvceia  M.,  b.  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  Nov.  30,  1873;  m.  first,  Oct.  9,  1897, 
F.  Eugene  Spofford,  b.  Oct  20,  1860;  d.  July  18,  1903;  m.  sec- 
ondly, Oct.  24,  1909,  Edwin  Blodgett,  b.  Newbury,  N.  H.,  Dec. 
22,  1865.     Children  by  first  husband:  1,  Florence  A.  Spofford,  b. 
April   12,  1898. 

59.  George"  Jepson  (Jamci",  David*,  Micah^.  John-,  J ohn^)  b.  1843, 

m.  Margaret  Foley,  b.  1845,  in  Ireland.     George  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Civil  War  and  lives  in  Bennington,  Vt. 

Children : 

Ellen,  b.  Sept.  29,  1869,  m.  Joseph  Hevves. 

Chas.  W.,  b.  June  11,  1871,  m.  Ella  Stevens.     No  children. 

Henry  James,  b.  1879,  m.  Nellie  Stevens. 

John,  m.  Jennie  Smith. 
v.     Edward,  m.  Emma  Drury. 
vi.     Willie  J. 

60.  Reuben    Wright"  Jepson     (Ja?nes'\  David*.    Micah^,    John", 


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John')  h.  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  Apr.  10,  1849.  m.  Apr.  9,  1879, 
IsAREi.i.  Kean,  b.  July  20,  1850.  He  now  lives  in  Hillsdale, 
N.  J.,  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  tbe  M.  E.  Church. 

Children  : 
i.       Ella  Marie,  b.  March  15,  1880,  m.  Sept.  27,  1913,  Daniel  C.  Cala- 

LANE. 

ii.      George  Blaine,  b.  Feb.  22,  1884,  m.  .April  27,  1908,  Hortense  Went- 

VVORTH  ATWOOD. 

61.  EnoS    Palmer"    JeI'SON      (Benjamin-' .     David'.    Micah'.    John-, 

John')  b.  Apr.  3,  1829,  in  Homer,  N  .Y.  d.  Aug.  18,  1906,  in 
Cortland,  N.  Y.  m.  first  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  June  10,  1857, 
Charlotte  E.  Webb,  b.  May  29,  1836,  d.  Apr.  23,  1877.  m. 
secondly  Apr.  4,  1880  at  Cazenovia,  New  York,  Ella  Wheel- 
er Dewey,  b.  May  1,  1841. 

Children  by  first  marriage: 

i.       CJeorge  Andrew,  b.  April  4,  1860,  at  Syracuse,  d.  Sept.  \2,  1876. 

ii.  Catherine  Amanda,  b.  July  11,  1862,  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  d.  Sept.  15, 
1876,  at  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 

iii.  Harriet  Minerva,  b.  Apr.  3,  1864,  at  Syracuse,  New  York,  to  Pii.s- 
BURV  A.Mos  Webster.  Children:  1,  George  Pilsbury,  b.  Feb.  20, 
1883,  m.  Sept.  12,  1912,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  Ethel  McVVatters: 
one  child,  Robert  Sidney,  b.  July  21,  1913.  2,  Charlotte  Frances, 
b.  Dec.  20,  1884,  at  Cazenovia.  3,  Katherine  Adriance,  b.  July 
20,  1888,  m.  Nov.  27,  1913,  to  James  Cortland  Hyatt.  4,  Robert  A., 
b.  Aug.  30,  1893.  5,  Donald  Eros,  b.  July  10,  1900.  6,  Paul 
Amos,  b.  June  24,  1902.     7,  Russell  Jepson,  b.  Sept.  17,  1910. 

iv.     Mary  Bunker,  b.  July  18,  1867,  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

v.      Lena  Bartlett,  b.  Mar.    1,   1870,  in   Syracuse. 

62.  Lewis  R."  Jepson    [Benjamin'',  Daniel*,  Micah^,  John-,  John^) 

b.  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  Mar.  16,  1835,  d.  in  Cortland,  New  York, 
Dec.  23,  1907.  m.  July  13,  1839,  Sarah  Sears  of  De  Ruyter, 
N.  Y.,  b.  June  13,  1839,  d.  in  Cortland.  New  York,  Oct.'  14, 
1913. 

Child : 

i.  Frank  Sears,  b.  Jan.  31,  1870,  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  m.  Aug.  4,  1898,  li.A 
(7EVVAVS.     Child:  Leora,  b.  July   19,   1899. 


63. 


Lorenzo  Dow"  Jepson,  Jr.  [Lorenzo  Dou'\  D.-irii/',  Micah', 
John',  John')  b.  at  Pownal,  Vt.,  June  12,  1836,  d.  Mar.  22, 
1884,  m.  Oct.  16,  1867,  H.  Maria  Rood.  b.  at  Pownal,  .Mar. 
30,  1840,  d.  Feb.  13,  1886.  Lorenzo  Dow  Jepson.  Jr.,  was 
a  member  of  Co.  A,  1 4th  Wrmont  Infantry.  Served  nine 
months  and  was  honorahh  discharged. 


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Children : 

i.  Ila  M.,  b.  at  Pownal,  Oc.  1,  1869,  m.  Nov.  27,  1895,  C.  J.  Woodruff. 
Children:  1,  Henrietta  May,  b.  at  Moriah,  N.  Y.  Dec.  5,  1896. 
2,  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Moriah,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  17,  1897,  d.  April 
15,  1898.     3,  Nancy  E.,  b.  Moriah,  N.  Y.,  Jan.   16,  1902. 

ii.      Mary,  b.  at  Pownal,  April  16,  1874,  .  Nov.  22,  1888. 

iii.     John  L.,  b.  at  Pownal,  April   16,  1874,  d.   Nov.  22,  1888. 

V.  Augustus  E.,  b.  at  Pownal,  V't,  Feb.  22,  1876,  m.  Feb.  17,  1904  Cora 
Hathaway. 

V.  William  R.,  b.  1879,  d.  April  19,  1917,  m.  Sept.  2,  1906,  Mary  Sut- 
ter.    Child:  1,  Mary,  b.  in  New  York  Cit>',  July  22,  1907. 

64.  Henry  Hudson''  Jepson  {EIP,  Samuel*,  Micah-\  John'-,  Jolin^) 

b.  Sept.  19,  1819.  d.  Jan.  15,  1907.  m.  July  4,  1847,  Sophia 
Fonda,  b.  July  6,  1830,  d.  Sept.  28,  1880. 

Children : 
i.       Electa  Julia,  b.  July  8,   1848,  m.   Feb.   11,   1872,   to  Henry  Graw- 

barger. 
ii.      Francis  E.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1850,  d.  March  16,   1912. 
iii.     Cora  A.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1853,  d.  Jan.  16,  1866. 
iv.     Joel  H.,  b.  Jan.  23,  1857,  d.  Sept.  25,  1907. 
V.      Porter  H.,  b.  Feb.  —  1862. 
vi.     May,  b.  May  1866. 
vii.    Myrtle  Jepson,  b.  April  11,  1869. 
vii.  Charles  B.,  b.  Nov.  28  . 

65.  Charles  Burrington"  Jepson   {Eli'',  Samuel* .  iMicah',  John-, 

John')  b.  Dec.  15,  1825.  d.  Feb.  24,  1896.     m.  Cynthia  B.-\d- 

GER. 

Children : 
i.       Eli  O.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1848,  m.  Ellen  W.^rd,  Sept.  1872.     Child:  Bert  P. 

Jepson,  b.  July  5,   1873,  d.  April  22,   1905. 
ii.      William  E.,  b.  July  20,   1869,  m.  April   6,    1888,    Lulu    Willson. 

Children:  1,  IValter,  b.  March  11,  1891;  2,  Mary  C,  b.  Jan.  24, 

1893;  3,  Roy,  b.  Jan.  24,   1895. 

66.  Jefferson  Hall"  Jepson  (EIP,  Samuel*,  Micah^,  John",  John'') 

b.  Oct.,  1827,  d.  June  13,  1901.    m.  Harriett  Rector. 

Children: 
i.       Albert  Jepson,  deceased, 
ii.     Lillie  Jepson,  m.  Hammond. 
iii.     Nellie  Jepson,  deceased. 

67.  John''  Jepson  {EIP,  Samuel*,  A'licah^,  John-,  John')  b.  in  Bridge- 

port, N.  Y.,  June  13,  1835,  d.  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Jan.  21, 
1913.  m.  Oct.  25,  1857,  Lvdia  Fannie  Sherpy,  b.  North 
Georgetown,  Ohio,  in  1840.     In  1856   settled  in  Cannon    City, 


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Rioe  County,  Minn.,  a  place  famed  as  Metropolisville  in  Edward 
Eggleston's  novel,  "The  Mysteries  of  Metropolisville,"  for  it  was 
in  this  village  that  the  novelist  made  his  early  home  and  Mr.  Jep- 
SON  is  one  of  the  conspicuous  characters  portrayed  in  the  book. 
In  1860  left  his  Minnesota  home  for  the  California  gold  fields. 
He  started  from  Southern  Minnesota  with  three  yoke  of  oxen  and 
made  the  journey  in  six  months.  While  sleeping  it  was  necessary 
to  corral  the  wagons  and  take  turns  in  standing  guard  against  the 
Indians,  all  the  way  from  Minnesota  to  California.  The  most 
serious  trouble,  however,  was  not  with  the  Indians.  While  camp- 
ing several  miles  East  of  Salt  Lake  City,  the  Mormons  under 
cover  of  darkness  attempted  to  steal  the  oxen  and  a  fight  ensued, 
resulting  in  a  number  of  Mormons  being  killed,  and  they  were 
buried  next  morning  in  the  sand  and  sage  brush.  Two  years  later 
Mr.  Jepson  returned  b\'  stage  to  Minnesota  and  offered  his  serv- 
ices to  the  Government,  enlisting  in  the  First  Minn.  Heavy  Artil- 
lery for  service  in  the  Civil  War.  From  Ft.  Snelling  he  accom- 
panied his  battery  to  the  South  and  served  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  when  he  again  settled  in  Cannon  City,  where  he  kept  a  gen- 
eral store  and  post  office  for  many  years.  Later  he  removed  to 
Fairbault  and  entered  the  mercantile  business.  He  was  always  in- 
terested in  City  and  County  Politics  and  held  several  responsible 
positions.  In  1903  he  retired  from  business  and  purchased  a  home 
in  Minneapolis.  He  was  a  meniber  of  the  Masonic  Order,  Levi 
Butler  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  Territorial  Pioneers  and  Pilgrim  Congre- 
tional  Church  of  Minneapolis. 

Children: 
i.       Charles  F.,  b.  Sept.  14,  1858,  d.  Aug.  11,  1860. 

90.  ii.      Lowell  Ellsworth,  b.  Oct.  19,  1863. 

91.  iii.     Frank  Newton,  b.  June  12,  1868. 

iv.     Clement  E.,  b.  June  22,  1870,  d.  Dec.  15,  1877. 

92.  V.      John  Harry,  b.  April  II,  1875. 

vi.  Jessie  Mary,  b.  July  23,  1880,  m.  Aug.  5,  1908,  Roe  E.  Remington. 
Was  an  instructor  of  elocution  at  Smith  College,  Northampton, 
Mass.  Children:  1,  H'ard  Remington;  2,  John  Remington;  3,  An- 
nette Remington. 

68.  Alfred  King"  Jepson  (Luther',  Samuel*,  Micah^.  John^,  John^) 
b.  in  Hammond,  N.  Y.,  June  21,  1842.  d.  Dec.  31,  1882.  m. 
Aug.  1,  1867,  Helen  Kilbourn.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  physique, 
a  great  reader,  extremely  witty,  possessed  a  fine  library.  He  was 
a  prominent  Mason  and  by  profession  a  inerchant. 

Child : 
i.       Albert   M.,   b.  Jan.  9,    1870,   at   CJouvcrneur,   N.   Y.,   m.   Nellie   M. 
Pierce,  b.  June  9,  1872.     Albert  M.  Jepson  is  a  resident  of  Gouv- 
erneur,   N.   Y.,   was  a   bookkeeper   in   the  National   Bank  for  five 


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years;  twenty-five  years  in  Marble  Quarry  as  superintendent. 
At  present  in  the  general  insurance  busness;  a  member  of  Ma- 
sonic orders,  Citizen's  Club  and  Masonic  Club,  Clerk  of  the  Vil- 
lage, Secretary  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Children:  1,  Al- 
fred M.,  h.  Nov.  3,  1903,  d.  April  22,  1904.  2,  Helen  Catherine, 
b.  Jan.  15,  1907. 


69.  Warren'*  Jepson   (Joel",  Samuel*,    Micah''\  John'-,    John^)   b.  in 

Rossie,  N.  Y.,  in  1832,  d.  Nov.  15,  1898,  m.  1859,  L.-\na 
Krake,  who  survives  and  lives  in  Welcome,  Wise. 

Children: 
i.      Albert  Lester,  b,  1859. 
ii.      Frank,  b.  1862. 
iii.     NOR.'V,  b.  1872. 

70.  Anson'"  Jepson  (  Joel',  Samuel*,  Micah'\  John-,  John^)  b.  in  Ros- 

sie, N.  Y.,  Apr.  25,  1834.  d.  Aug.  15,  1897.  M.  Dec.  29,  1862, 
IsABELLE  MiNTA  Hall.  b.  Mar.  6,  1836,  d.  Mar.  8,  1898. 
Was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church ;  was  a  farmer. 

—  -J 
Children : 

i.  Clare  E.,  b.  March  28,  1865,  d.  April  13,  1910,  m.  June  5,  1889, 
James  J.  Walsh,  who  d.  Jan.  16,  1899.  He  was  a  clerk  and  lived 
in  Rossie,  N.  Y.  Children:  Harold  J.,  b.  March  1,  1890,  d.  March 
8,  1891.  2,  Herbert  J.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1891.  3,  M.  Hazel,  b.  Jan.  21, 
1893.    4,  James  A.,  b.  Jan.  3,  1897. 

ii.      Alida,  b.  July   14,  1876,  d.  Sep.  30,  1896. 

71.  George"  Jepson  {Joel",  Samuel*,  Micah'^,  John-,  John^)  b.  in  Ros- 

sie, N.  Y.,  Apr.  9,  1839.  d.  Apr.  8,  1906.  m.  at  De  Kalb,  Sept. 
14,  1865,  Agnes  Hall,  b.  at  Antwerp,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  20,  1840,  d. 
Aug.  25,  1903. 

Children: 

i.  Maggie  Bell,  b.  Nov.  8,  1867,  m.  at  Rossie,  N.  Y.  Nov.  25,  1891, 
OSBORN  Simons.  Children:  1,  Charles  Jepson,  b.  Sep.t  24,  1893. 
2,   George  Robert,  b.  Sept.   30,  1895.     3,  Elmer,  b.   Dec.   15,   1898. 

ii.  Robert  Hall,  b.  Jan.  28,  1872,  m.  Dec.  17,  1891,  at  Ogdensburg,  N. 
Y.,  Mary  O'Reilly.  Children:  1,  Robert  Hall,  b.  Oct.  4,  1892. 
2,  Agnes  Pearl,  b.  Dec.  26,  1894,  d.  April,  1895. 

iii.     Georqe  Arnold.  • 

iv.  Agnes  Augusta,  b.  Aug.  13,  1878.  George,  m.  June  13,  1906  at  Tren- 
ton, N.  Y.,  Grace  A.   McIntosh.       Child:   1,  Saville  Agnes,  h 


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Oct.  11,  1909.  .^gnes  A.,  m.  Dec.  2,  1903,  Andrew  M.  Stii.es.  Chil- 
dren; 1,  Helen  .-Ignes,  b.  Sept.  28,  1905.  2,  William  Mort/an,  b. 
Sept.  30,  1910. 


AG>JES  Arc;rsr.\  ju'sux  stiles 

V.  CARRIE  Fr.xnces,  b.  May  21,  1881,  m.  Sept.  25,  1901,  at  Hammond, 
N.  v.,  WiLi.i.^M  W.  NiCHOL.  Children:  1,  Rutli  Evelyn,  b.  Jan. 
14,  1906.     2,  Ruth  Agnes,  b.  April  25,  1913. 

72.  Vernon  M.''  Jepson  {Thomas'.  Stimucl*.  Micah\  John^,  John^) 
b.  Ware,  Mass.,  Dec.  22,  1843,  m.  first  July  4,  18fa3  at  Westford, 
Conn.,  M.ARTH.A  Ch.apm.an,  b.  Apr.  16,  1843,  d.  at  Belleville, 
N.  J.,  April  7,  1907.  He  m.  secondly,  Apr.  20,  1914,  Ann.a  T. 
Benton,  b.  Somerset,  N.  J.,  Dec.  30,  1846.  He  was  a  high 
school  student  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out  and  in  1862  enlisted 
in  Co.  G,  51st  Mass.  Inf.  and  was  sent  to  Newbern,  N.  C.  Was 
out  eleven  days  with  Goldsboro  Expedition,  sent  out  to  destroy 
bridges  and  railroads  and  was  in  engagements  at  Kingston,  White 
Hall  and  Goldsboro.  Re-enlisted  in  the  Mass.  Heavy  Artillery 
and  given  a  short  furlough,  during  which  he  went  home  and  was 
married  ;  then  sent  to  Boston  to  help  quell  the  draft  riot;  went  to 
N.  C.  again  and  served  until  the  end  of  the  war.  When  he  re- 
turned he  learned  the  carpenter  trade;  later  became  a  florist.  A 
few  weeks  ago  Mr.  Jefson  read  in  a  Boston  paper  the  call  for 
War  Veterans  of  '61  to  fill  positions  of  importance  in  the  present 
war  (1917).  He  replied,  telling  his  age,  sevent>-thrce,  his  war 
record  and  honorable  discharges  and  is  now  awaiting  a  reply  and 
hoping  he  can  again  fill  some  place  in  the  country's  service.  He 
resides  in  P^ast  Thompson,  Conn. 

Children,  all  by  first  wife: 
i.       Ruth   M.,  b.   Webster,   Mass.,   Apr.    1,    1864;   m.   first   Dec.    13,    1885, 


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BuRDELL  J.  White;  m.  secondly  William  M.  Wenner,  and  now 
lives  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

ii.  Nellie  Alberto,  b.  Webster,  Mass.,  Aug.  6,  1866,  m.  first  Frank  E. 
Lyon,  Dec.  19,  1885;  secondly  Monroe  H.  Snow,  June  7,  1911. 
Children  by  first  husband:  1,  Cora  A.  Lyon,  b.  Oct.  13,  1888,  at 
Webster,  Mass.;  m.  Howard  E.  Custance,  Sept.  14,  1910.  2, 
Edith  M.  Lyon,  at  Woodstock,   Conn.,  Mar.  8,  1895. 

iii.     Ulysses  Grant,  b.  July  25,  1868,  d.  May,  1887. 

iv.     Elmer  V.,  b.  at  Webster,  Mar.  17,  1876,  d.  Oct.  16,  1882. 

73.  Ephriagm  M'.  Jepson  {Willis^,  Lemuel^,  John'',  H^illiam^,  John-, 

John^)  b.  May  7,  1823.    m.  H.ARRIETT  Potts. 

Children: 

i.       Jesse  Willis,  b.  .     d.  Jan.  23,  1883;  m.   Sept.   17,   1882,  Fanny 

Semples.     No  children, 
ii.      James,  b.  in  Blue  Bottom,  Mo.,  d.  same  place,  Feb.,  1879. 

74.  William  Lemmon'  Jepson  {PFillis^,  Lemuel-',  John*,  William^, 

John^.John^)  b.  in  Simpson  County,  Ky.,  Nov.  7,  1826,  d.  Vaca- 
ville,  Cal.,  Dec.  31,  1903,  m.  in  Jackson  Co.,  Mo.,  Nov.  12, 
1856,  Martha  Ann  Potts,  b.  Oct.  23,  1832,  in  Jackson  Co., 
Mo.  Joined  the  gold  rush  to  California  in  1850;  mined  on  the 
Feather  River,  took  his  sick  brother  Orson  to  the  Hawaiian  Is- 
lands, where  the  latter  died,  and  finally  returned  to  Missouri  by 
way  of  Panama  in  1856.  In  1857  with  his  wife,  he  started  with 
a  small  wagon  train  drawn  by  o.xen,  across  the  plains.  They  nar- 
rowly escaped  attack  or  destruction  by  the  Indians.  On  one  oc- 
casion they  came  on  the  Overland  Trail,  to  a  spot  where  a  wagon 
train  had  been  attacked  and  all  of  the  party  killed  a  few  hours 
previously.  The  Jepsons  hurried  forward  that  night  to  join  a 
large  train  of  emigrants  ahead.  The  men  of  the  train  had  no  din- 
ner or  supper,  as  it  was  dangerous  to  make  a  fire.  According  to 
the  order  of  William  Jepson  his  men  made  no  noise  and  drove 
the  train  silently  ahead.  They  did  not  even  crack  the  whips  over 
the  laggard  o.xen,  but  each  driver  punched  the  animals  with  the 
butt  end  of  the  whip.  In  many  directions  could  be  seen  the  Indian 
fires.  About  midnight  the  big  train  was  reached.  Its  people  were 
hospitable,  and  allowed  the  cattle  to  be  turned  in  with  theirs, 
which  was  against  the  law  of  the  Overland  Trail,  because  of  the 
great  difficulty  in  separating  cattle.  But  the  big  train  was  glad 
to  receive  the  little  train  as  an  aid  against  possible  Indian  attack; 
and  the  sense  of  common  danger  was  so  great  that  the  cattle  were 
quietly  separated  the  next  morning  without  the  usual  disorder 
and  bad  language.  After  many  exciting  experiences  on  the  long 
journey  across  the  continent,  the  party  made  the  passage  of  the 
high  Sierra  Nevada  guarding  the  Eastern  frontier  of  California, 


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in  the  neighborhood  of  Sonora  Pass,  and  descended  the  west  slope 
through  the  wonderful  Sierran  forest  of  sugar  pine  and  white  fir, 
passing  on  the  way  the  giants  of  the  vegetable  kingdom,  the  newly 
discovered  Calaveras  grove  of  big  trees.  The  emigrants  settled  on 
a  farm  in  Solano  Co.,  west  side  of  the  Sacramento  Valley,  where 
they  lived  until  William's  death.  The  Jepson  farm  in  the 
mouth  of  Vaca  Valley  is  still  in  possession  of  the  family,  having 
been  acquired  in  1867.  Willlam  Jepson  may  not  unfairly  be 
taken  as  a  type  of  the  grandsons  of  Dr.  Lemuel  C.  Jepson. 
They  were  well  built  men  of  average  or  a  little  above  average 
height,  strong  featured,  with  a  tendency  in  general  to  a  Roman 
nose  and  in  general  with  dark  hair.  There  was,  amongst  some  of 
them,  a  marked  family  resemblance,  a  statement  which  includes 
some,  at  least  of  the  grand  daughters.  They  were  men  who  at- 
tended church  and  were  devoutly  attached  to  it.  Their  stead- 
fastness and  resolution  in  adhering  to  a  moral  cause  marked 
them,  almost,  as  men  apart.  To  some  of  them  at  least,,  whisky 
was,  for  example,  of  the  devil  and  was  to  be  shunned  for  strictly 
moral  and  not  economic  reasons. 

Children : 

Eliza  Josephine,  b.  Oct.  22,  1858,  in  Vacaville  Township,  Cal.,  m.  at 
Vacaville,  Oct.  19,  1887,  to  Moses  Carol  Hendricks,  b.  June  12, 
1857  in  Jackson  Co.,  Mo.  Children;  1,  Carl  fepson,  b.  at  Vaca- 
ville, Cal.,  July  5,  1889;  m.  Oct.  II,  I9I6,  at  San  Jose,  Cal.,  to 
Grace  Mertie  Rideout.  2,  Frances  Ethel,  b.  at  Healdsburg,  Cal., 
Aug.  20,  1890.  3,  Anita  Grace,  b.  at  Healdsburg,  Cal.  Mav  30, 
1892,  m.  June  1,  1913,  at  Oakland,  Cal.,  to  Geo.  Williamson  and 
had  issue:  Karl  Douglas  Williamson,  b.  Sept.  11,  1915.  4,  lenore 
Helen,  b.  at  Healdsburg,  Cal.,  Oct.  28,  1893.  5,  Willis  Edward, 
b.  Healdsburg,  Cal.,  July  +,  1896,  d.  at  Colfax,  Cal.,  March  4, 
1917.     6,  Martha  Gladys,  b.  at  Healdspurg,  Cal.,  Sept.  17,  1900. 

I.UCY  Frances,  b.  Jan.  30,  I860,  in  Vacaville  Township,  Cal.,  d.  Jan. 
6,  1885,  in  San  Francisco.  "Frances  Jepson"  as  she  was  called, 
knew  things  by  intuition.  She  hungered  and  thirsted  for  knowl- 
edge, and  the  faster  it  came  the  greater  were  her  exertions  in  its 
acquisition  and  pursuit.  As  a  writer  she  exhibited,  when  a  young 
girl,  very  extraordinary  talents.  Her  ambitions  were  far  in 
excess  of  her  physical  capabilities.  Had  she  been  endowed  with 
the  requisite  physical  strength  I  am  firmly  of  the  belief  that  Miss 
Jepson  would  have  filled  some  very  important  position  in  life.  It 
could  almost  be  said  of  her  as  Alexander  Pope  said  of  himself 
when  a  child:  She  "lisped  in  numbers  for  the  numbers  came." 
But  the  "blade  was  too  sharp  for  the  scabbard."— Chaplain  C.  C. 
Bateman,  V.  S.  Army,  in  the  I.ankershin,  Vol.  5,  p.  6  (1891). 
.  Infant  son,  b.  in  Vacaville  Township,  June  2,  1864,  d.  June  IS,  1864. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  15,  1862,  In  Vacaville  Township,  Cal.,  d. 
St.  Helena,  Cal.,  Feb.  3,  1910,  m.  July  20,  1892.  at  Vacaville,  Cal., 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Frank  Pellet.  Mary  Jepson  had  intellectual  tastes  but  rather 
in  the  way  of  recreation  than  with  ambitious  purpose.  In  tem- 
perament she  was  very  genial  and  cheery  and  had  a  host  of 
warm  friends  and  admirers.  One  child,  Martha  Dorris  Pellet,  b. 
Aug  13,  1894,  St.  Helena,  Cal. 

V.  Willis  Linn,  b.  Aug.  18,  1867,  in  Vacaville  Twp.,  Cal. 
He  showed  at  an  early  age  a  taste  for  the  scientific  study 
of  nature  and  devoted  himself  to  the  plant  world.  He 
graduated  from  the  University  of  California  in  1889,  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Department  of  Botany  of  that  Uni- 
versity in  1891,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  professor 
in  1899.  He  is  the  author  of  a  Flora  of  Western  Middle 
California  (1901),  a  High  School  Flora  for  the  Pacific 
Coast  (1902),  Silva  of  California  (1910),  Trees  of  Cal- 
ifornia (1909),  and  A  Flora  of  California  (1909-1914, 
and  still  in  progress).  He  was  editor  of  Erythea,  a  jour- 
nal of  botany  1893-1901  ;  delegate  from  the  United  States 
to  the  International  Agricultural  Congress  at  Liege,  in 
Belgium,  in  1905;  founder  of  the  California  Botanical  So- 
ciety (1913),  and  its  President  (1913-1915).  He  is  a 
member  of  many  scientific  societies  and  has  contributed 
numerous  scientific  papers  to  the  proceedings  and  journals 
of  learned  bodies. 

iv.     Amos  Carl,  b.  Jn.  2,   I87I,   in   Vacaville  twp.,   Cal.,  d.   in    Vacaville 
twp.,  June   19,   1880. 

75.  Simpson'  Jepson  {Benjamin'^',  Lemuel'',  John*.  M'iUiam^,  John^, 
John')  b.  in  Simpson  Co.,  Ky.,  Oct.  2,  1824,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Sept.  25,  1901.  m.  Nov.  26,  1846,  Jane  Newland  of  Simpson 
Co.,  Ky.  Both  Mr.  Jepson  and  wife  were  from  early  life  mem- 
bers of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church,  in  which  he  was  a 
ruling  elder  for  many  years.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity,  having  held  various  official  positions  in  his  lodge. 
He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  temperance  cause,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  L  O.  G.  T.  He  never  touched  a  drop  of  intoxicating 
liquors  in  his  life.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  was  one 
of  the  native  born,  enterprising  and  successful  farmers,  as  well  as 
one  of  the  prominent  citizens  in  the  county.  He  received  a  fair 
common  school  education  in  youth  and  also  added  very  materially 
to  his  education  by  his  own  exertions  since  he  became  a  man,  hav- 
ing acquired  a  good,  practical  business  education.  He  always  re- 
sided on  the  old  homestead  where  he  was  born,  and  which  he 
owned.  Here  he  was  extensively  and  successfully  engaged  in 
farming,  making  the  culture  of  tobacco  a  specialty.     He  also  fol- 


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lowed  the  brickmason's  trade  to  some  extent  in  connection  with 
farming. 

Children : 

i.  Patsev  T.,  b.  at  Franklin,  Kv.,  Sept.  20,  1851,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Oct.  30,  1903. 

ii.  WiLLi.\M  Jepsov,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  28,  1854  (home,  Joncsburg, 
Mo.),  m.  Jan.  12,  1888,  M.'^RV  Watts.  Children:  I,  llaytics,  h. 
at  Franklin,  Ky.  Dec.  14,  1888,  d.  1915,  at  Jonesburg,  Mo.  2, 
Rut/lie  May,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.   18,   1895. 

iii.  HEl,nv,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Feb.  11,  1857,  (home,  Franklin,  Ky.)  m. 
Bh.i.ie  Gillespie.  Children:  1,  Fannie  Belle,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
June  17,  1881,  d.  at  Franklin,  Ky.  March  16,  1905,  m.  Bud  Grain- 
ger. 2,  Martha  Jane,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  April  27  1884,  m.  Jim 
Barker.  3,  Simpson,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  17,  1888,  m.  Bertie 
Meguier. 

iv.     John   D.,   b.  at   Franklin,   Ky.   .\u^.    18,    1863    (home,   Franklin,   Ky.) 

V.      Nancy,  d.   in  infancy. 

76.  CaSS.ANDUR  L.'  Jepson  (Benj,iinin'\  LtniiicP.  Jrjhn\  Uilli'im^. 
John-.  John^)  b.  Franklin,  Kv.,  Apr.  26,  1826,  d.  at  Franklin, 
Kv.,  July  29,  1904.  m.  Oct.  21,  1855,  M.ary  J.  Peter:,  b.  in 
Wadesburough,  Ky.  He  received  such  an  education  in  youth 
as  could  be  obtained  at  the  schools  of  the  Kentucky  frontier.  He 
made  his  home  with  his  father  until  he  was  28  years  old,  but 
upon  attaining  his  majority  he  boueht  a  farm  near  the  old  home- 
stead, uron  which  he  remained  until  I860,  when  he  sold  out  and 
removed  to  Independence  County,  Ark.  Here  he  bought  a  farm 
and  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  at  blacksmithing 
for  precisely  three  years,  returning  to  Simpson  County,  Ken- 
tuckv  in  October,  1863,  where  he  was  e.xclusively  employed  in 
blacksmithing  for  four  years.  In  1867  he  bought  ?ii  acres  of 
wild  land  on  the  waters  of  Spring  Creek,  erected  a  shop,  and 
improved  the  farm  upon  which  he  resided  until  his  death.  He 
also  owned  a  thousand  acres  of  wild  land  on  the  Mississippi 
River  in  Fulton  County,  Kentuckv.  He  also  worked  at  the  car- 
penter's trade  and  was  a  natural  born  mechanic.  C.ass.ander 
L.  Jepson  and  wife  were,  from  early  life,  members  of  the 
church;  he  first  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  and  she  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal.  South,  but  later  both  became  members  of  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  also  an  earnest  ad- 
vocate of  the  temperance  cause,  and  was  formerly  a  member  of 
the  I.  O.  G.  T.,  and  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  held  vari- 
ous official  positions  in  the  latter  order.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Democrat. 

Children  : 
i.       Susan  Alice,  h.   Franklin,   Ky.  July  26,   1856,  d.   Franklin,   Kv.,    |une 
22,  1902,  m.  Nov.  6,   1877,  Jons  Wesley  Gir.r.ESPiE.     Children:   1 


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Annie,  b.  Franklin,  July  29,  1879,  d.  at  Franklin,  July  7,  1916. 
2,  Buelah,  b.  Franklin,  April  11,  1882,  m.  April  15,  1908,  Ervin 
Link,  b.  Franklin,  June  12,  1908.  3,  Mellissa,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky., 
Sept.  23,  1884,  m.  Sept.  7,  1904,  Charles  Berry,  and  had  children: 
a,  Mary  Alice,  b.  at  Franklin,  July  31,  1905;  b,  Josephine,  b.  at 
I  Franklin,  May  10,  1910.     4,  Charlie  If'.,  b.  at  Franklin,  Nov.  27, 

1886.  5,  Al/ia  (male)  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Sept.  18,  1889  (home, 
Franklin,  Ky.)  6,  Vivian  (male)  b.  at  Franklin,  June  16,  1896, 
(home,  Franklin,  Ky. ) 

ii.      Jessie  Ellen,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.  9,  1859,  d.  Jan.  21,  1863. 

iii.  Ida,  b.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Dec.  18,  1862,  m.  Jan  1,  1882,  Bob  Blewett. 
Children:  1,  Jesse,  b.  Franklin,  July  20,  1883,  m.  Emma  Johnston, 
Oct.  27,  1909.  Child:  J.  Nathan,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Apr.  30,  1911. 
2,  Mary  Lou,  b.  Franklin,  Oct.  3,  1887  (home,  Franklin,  Ky.),  m. 
C.  Wingo,  Jan.  2,  1907,  and  had  children:  a,  Ida  Frances,  b. 
Franklin,  Jan.  1,  1912;  b,  Robert  Weslev,  b.  Franklin,  Sept.  11, 
1909.  3,  Kntherine  Bleivett,  b.  at  Franklin,  Oct.  26,  1892,  d.  at 
Franklin,  March  17,  1893.  4,  Robert  Lee,  b.  at  Franklin,  May 
31,  1895,  d.  Franklin,  Jan.  11,  1896.  5,  Roy  Venable,  b.  Franklin, 
Sept.  15,  1897,  d.  Franklin,  Ky.,  May  5,  1898.  6,  Ennis,  b.  Frank- 
lin, Jan.  28,  1902. 

iv.  N.  LULIE  Jepson,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Nov.  12,  1865,  (home,  Franklin, 
Ky.),  m.  Nov.  11,  1886,  Bo.^z  GoiN.  Children:  1,  Jim  L.,  b.  at 
Franklin,   Aug.   26,   1887,   m.   June   30,   1912,   Bessie   Mae   Phelps. 

2,  Cornelius,  h.  at  Franklin,  Ky.,  Nov.   5,  1895. 

V.      M;«Y  Emma,  b.  Franklin,  July  27,  1869,  d.  at  Franklin,  Aug.  25,  1895. 

77.  Jesse  J.'  Jepsox  (Benjamin''.  Lemutl''.  Jolui*.  If  illianr.  John-. 
John')  b.  in  Simpson  Co.,  Ky.,  May  12,  1832,  d.  June  6,  1912. 
at  Glasgow,  Ky.  m.  May  1,  1864,  Amaxd.\  Lewis.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  Bellevue  Hospital  Medicsl  College,  New  York, 
in  1861.  From  that  place  he  went  to  Nashville,  Tenn.  He  was 
a  Royal  Arch  Mason.  On  his  way  to  reach  Morgan  to  join  his 
company  his  horse  was  wounded,  and  while  waiting  for  his  horse 
to  recover  he  met  Amanda  Frances  Lewis.  .  The  war  closing, 
he  married  in  1864,  and  settled  in  Glasgow,  Kentucky,  where 
he  lived  and  practiced  medicine  until  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years,  June  6,  1912.  Was  first  a  Presbyterian,  but  there  being 
no  church  near  him  after  the  war  closed,  he  joined  the  ^L  F. 
Church,  saying  he  could  worship  God  in  one  church  as  well  as 
in  another. 

Children : 
i.  Hattie,  b.  at  Glasgow,  Ky.,  Feb.  14,  1865,  (home,  Deland,  Fla.),  m. 
Nov.  2,  1887,  J.  W.  Gardner.  Children:  1,  Marion,  b.  at  Glas- 
gow, July  28,  1888,  (home,  Jacksonville,  Fla.),  m.  Dec.  11,  1912, 
A.  D.  McNeill.  One  child:  Susan  Gardner,  b.  Jacksonville,  Fla., 
Nov.  15,   1913.     2,  Olive  Gage.  b.  at  Glasgow,  Ky.,  Feb.  8,  1890. 

3,  Amanda  Frances,  b.  Glasgow,  July  19,  1893.  4,  Mildred  Cath- 
erine, b.  Glasgow,  July  18,   1898. 

ii.      Belle  T.,  b.  Glasgow,  Aug.  28,  1872. 


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iii.     Mary  Annie,  b.  Glasgow,  April  5,   1876   (home  in  Miss.)    m.  June 
20,  1904,  George  H.  Stewart. 

78.  Benjamin  W."  Jepson    {Benjamin",  Lemuel^',  John'*,  William^, 

John-,  John')  b.  in  Franklin,  Ky.,  Nov.  16,  1859.  m.  first 
Mar.  1,  1883,  Hannah  Gillespie;  m.  secondly  Nov.  13,  1906, 
Frances  Kendall.  He  received  a  good  education.  He  owns 
several  acres  of  good  land  of  which  a  part  belonged  to  the  old 
Jepson  home.  Has  been  a  very  successful  and  prosperous  farm- 
er. His  home  was  blessed  by  three  children.  His  wife  died 
when  the  youngest  was  a  tiny  baby.  His  mother  kept  house  for 
him  until  the  girls  were  old  enough.  He  is  a.  memher  of  the 
Missionary  Baptist  Church,  and  a  Democrat  in  politics. 

Children:    All  by  first  wife: 
i.       Louise,  b.  Franklin,  Jan.  6,  1883    (home,  Franklin,  Ky.)   m.  June  21, 

1905,  Ben  Bradley.     Children:  1,  If'illis,  b.  at  Franklin,  Nov.  21, 

1906.  2,  Mary  Frames,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct.   13,  1907. 
ii.      Mary  Ellen,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  July  6,  1887. 

iii.     Jessie  J.,  b.  Franklin,  Ky.,  Oct  5,  1890. 

79.  George   Edwin'  Jepson    (If'iUiam'',   fVilliam'',  Samuel",   IVil- 

liam-\  John'.  John')  b.  in  Boston,  Nov.  14,  1842,  d.  Dec  21, 
1915.  m.  1871,  Emma  Almira,  dau.  of  Austin  G.  Fitch  of 
HoUiston,  Mass.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  his  native  city.  He  was  a  young  man  when 
the  Civil  War  broke  out;  he  enlisted  and  served  creditably  for 
three  years  in  Company  A,  Thirteenth  Regiment  Massachusetts 
Volunteer  Militia,  being  wounded  at  second  Battle  of  Bull  Run, 
August  30,  1862.  He  has  always  voted  the  Republican  ticket 
and  supported  the  candidates  of  that  party.  He  was  past  com- 
mander of  Isaac  B.  Patten  Post  No.  81,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  at  Watertown,  where  he  lived  for  some  years.  He 
also  resided  in  Detroit  City,  Minn.,  and  was  one  of  the  Board 
of  Supervisors  there  and  a  Justice.  He  was  a  journalist  and  has 
written  much  on  historical,  military  and  literary  subjects.  Was 
twenty-four  years  in  the  Boston  Custom  Service  and  while  thus 
engaged  discovered  Nathaniel  Hawthorne's  former  relation  with 
the  Boston  Custom  House,  finding  his  first  pay  voucher,  which 
had  been  lost.  Mr.  Jepson  wrote  two  interesting  articles  on 
the  subject  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne's  relation  to  the  Boston 
Custom  House,  one  for  the  "Bookman"'  and  one  for  a  Boston 
paper,  which  was  copied  in  the  New  York  Times.  His  intro- 
duction to  this  volume,  (See  page  16)  will  be  rrad  with  interest. 
Through  his  marriage  with  Mi.ss  Fitch,  ther  children 
Inherit  the  LeBaron  strain  from  the  celebrated  Huguenot,  Dr. 


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Francis  LeBaron,  whose  adventurous  career  has  been  emphasized 
in  history  and  novels.  Dr.  LeBaron  Monroe,  a  namesake  and 
lineal  descendant,  was  a  surgeon  in  First  Mass.  Volunteers  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War. 

Childr'n  : 
93.  i.       William  Austin,  b.  1872. 

ii.      Florence  Marion,  b.  1873,  m.  William  O.  Walker.     No  children. 
iii.     Emma  Irene,  b.  1875,  m.  Theo.  C.  Walker;  one  daughter, 
iv.     Charlotte  March,  b.  1876,  m.  Pratt  Thompson.     One  daughter. 
V.      George   Williston,   b.   1879,   m.   Anna   Furber;   has   two   sons   and 

three  daughters, 
vi.     Paul  Reverve,  b.  1881,  m.  Ada  Lee,  has  nvo  sons  and  one  daughter. 

80.  Samuel    Greenwood"    Jepson     (Sumuel'^.    William',    Samuel^, 

Willic.m^,  John\  John^)  b.  in  Boston  T^pril  12,  1832,  d.  in 
Medford,  Mass.,  Feb.  26,  1907.  m.  first,  October  1,  1856, 
Mary  J.  Hall,  who  d.  Apr.  19,  1860.  m.  secondly.  May  26, 
1862,  S.ARAH  Gleason  Hall,  who  d.  Aug.  12,  1882.  In  1862 
he  enlisted  in  the  Lawrence  Light  Guard,  Company  C,  29th 
Regt.,  for  three  years,  serving  his  full  time.  Mr.  Jepson  had 
been  a  resident  of  Medford  for  50  years.  He  was  formerly  in 
the  employ  of  H.  N.  Hooper  &  Company,  brass  finishers,  Bos- 
ton. For  the  past  30  years  he  had  been  a  night  inspector  in  the 
Boston  Custom  House.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Mount  Ver- 
non lodge  of  Masons,  ]\Iystic  Royal  Arch  chapter,  Medford 
council  and  Couer  de  Lion  commandery;  also  of  Post  66,  G.  A. 
R.,  and  Camp  54,  S.  of  V.  He  wns  the  oldest  active  fireman  in 
Medford  and  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  state.  He  had  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Washington  Hook  and  Ladder  Company  for  45 
years  and  clerk  of  the  company  for  more  than  40  years. 

Child  by  first  wife: 
i.       Mary  Louise,  b.  May  5,  1859,  m.  June  30,  1905,  Fred  F.  Buzzell  of 
Skowkegan,  Maine. 

Children  by  second  wife: 
ii.      Elizabeth  G.,  b.  April  11,  1866.     Now  living  in  Medford. 
iii.     Florence  M.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1868. 
iv.     Herbert  H.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1876. 

V.      Fannie  A.,  b.  May  15,  1880,  m.  Oct.  10,  1908,  Fred  Wv  Ransk.\ll  of 
•  Medford,  Mass. 

81.  Charles  Edwin'   Jepson    (fi'illiani'''.  M'illiaiii'' .  Samuel*.  J!  d- 

liam\  John-.  John')  b.  Boston,  Mass.,  Oct.  13,  1839,  d.  in 
South  Africa,  Dec.  25,  1907,  m.  in  Port  Elizabeth,  South  Africa, 
Emily  Caroline  McKenzie,  who  survives  him.    Charles  E. 


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Jepson  went  to  Port  Elizabeth  at  the  age  of  twenty  to  represent 
a  Boston  firm  in  the  wool  business. 

Children : 

Edwin  Howi.and,  b.  April  16,  1864,  m.  Ada  Nf.  Johnson,  b.  Dec.  29, 
1868.  Children:  1,  lera  Muriel,  h.  May  2,  1896,  d.  Jan.  20,  1897. 
2,  Eric  Cameron,  b.  May  17,  1897,  d.  March  22,  1898.  3,  Mono 
irinifred,  b.  Oct.  23,  1898.  4,  Percival  Claude,  b.  Jan.  3,  1901. 
5,  Doris  Elaine,  b.  Oct.  31,  1902.  6,  Ethyl  May,  b.  May  3,  1904. 
\.  Ch.^rles  Edwin,  b.  May  27,  1866,  d.  Jan.  11,  1914,  m.  B.arb.ara 
B.^XTER,  b.  Dec.  29,  1871.  Children:  1,  Douglas  Charles,  b.  Aug. 
31,  1899.  2,  Henrietta  Aurelia,  b.  Feb.  27,  1901.  3,  Giuendoline 
Barbara,  b.  Sept.  3,  1903.  4,  Florence  Emily,  b.  Jan.  13,  1907. 
i.     S.\MUEL  McKenzie,  b.  May   13,   1868,  m.   Carrie  Elizabeth   Maria 

Gates,  b.  Feb.  27,  1874.     Four  children,  all   living. 
V.     Ethyl  May,  b.  Aug.  16,  1870,  m.  John  Ale.xander  Grant,  b.  Nov. 
17,   1860.     Children:   1,   Colin   McKenzie   Grant,  b.  July  2,   1899. 
2,  Jean  McKenzie  Grant,  b.   Sept.   15,    1905. 
.      Agnes  Goddard,  b.  Feb.  29,  1872,  d.  Feb.  29,  1877. 

Thomas  Goddard,  b.  Nov.   11,   1874,  d.  Aug.   13,  1875. 
Donald   Howard,   b.   Nov.  4,    1878. 
.  Florence  E.viily,  b.  Jan   14,  1880,  d.  April   6,   1893. 
Harold  Cameron,  b.  Dec.  19,  1883,  m.  Elizabeth  Lemon  Baird,  b. 
Feb.  28,  1893.     Child:  Chas.  Ediuin  Cameron,  b.  Oct.  7,  1911. 


82.  HeN'RV  M.'  Jepson  (()rcn'\  Forrest''.  John*.  Mkah'\  Johrr. 
John')  b.  Aug.  6,  1844,  z\  Ware,  Mass.  m.  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, May  26,  1874,  Josie.  dau,  of  John  and  Hannah  Brown  of 
Utica,  N.  Y.  b.  Nov.  18,  1849,  d.  Nov.  5,  1916.  Henry  Jep- 
son is  a  farmer  living  near  Belchertown,  Mass. 

Ch'ildren  all  born  at  Belchertown: 

M.ary  S.,  b.  Dec.  15,  1878. 
Dwight  H.,  b.  May  14,  1882. 
lOLA  J.,  b.   Dec.  14,   1884. 


8.3.  Wlli.am  S.'  Jipson  {Seht''\  Cyrnl\  John\  Micah\  John',  John') 
b.  July  17,  1844,  d.  1913.  m.  Dec.  12,  1867,  Miss  Helen 
HicKox.  He  joined  the  Union  Army  Sept.,  1864,  Co.  K,  1st 
Michigan  Cavalry.  Went  to  Virginia';  was  in  the  battle  of  Ced- 
ar Creek,  Oct.  19,  1864.  Wss  in  the  battle  of  Briar  Hill  and 
Five  Forks,  Apr..  186.5,  and  Appomatax  Apr.  9,  1865.  Honor- 
ably discharged  at  Ft.  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  June  19,  1865. 
Lived  in  Michigan,  Charlotte  and  Lansing. 

Children  : 
i.       George  \V.,  b.  Oct.  22.  1868,  d.  April  7,  1893. 
ii.      Fred  E.,  b.  July   15,   1872,  m.  Sept.   30,    1897,   Lii.i.iam  M.  Murray. 

One  child:  ilarold  R. 
iii.     Verne  M.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1875,  m.  July  4,  1900,  May  L.  Wycorst.     No 

children.      Fred  and   Verne  .ire  farmers,  near   Lansing,   Mich. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


84.  Norman  Jqsiah'   Jipson    (Samuel  F.."   CyraP,  John*,  Micah'\ 

John',  John')  b.  Feb.  18,  1861  at  Dayton,  Wis.,  m.  Sept.  18, 
1881,  Sarah  M.  Bartlett  of  Attica,  Wise.  Lived  on  a  farm 
at  Attica  from  1867  until  1888,  then  moved  to  Placer  Co.,  Cal., 
remaining  one  year.  Bought  a  farm  near  Moneta,  Iowa,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  Has  increased  his  holdings  until  now  he 
owns  a  very  large  and  valuable  property.  Has  had  a  very  busy 
life  farming,  stock  raising  and  shipping. 

Children : 

.  ii.      Arthur  M.  ) 

94.  i.       Albert  M.    ^  Twins,  b.  Sept.   1,   1882,  in  Wisconsin.     Arthur  M.  is 

unmarried  and  lives  on  the  farm  with  his  parents. 

iii.  Alice  E.,  b.  Wisconsin,  Nov.  5,  1884,  m.  Oct.  22,  1905,  Frank  Bay- 
singer,  b.  Sept.  10,  1874,  at  Center  Junction,  Iowa.  Children:  1, 
Cyral,  b.  Aug.  12,  1906.  2,  Carroll  W.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1908.  3.  Ed- 
win F.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1910.     4,  Francis,  b.  Oct.  26,  1914. 

iv.     Cyral,  b.  Aug.  7,  1886,  d.  April  19,  1887. 

95.  v.      Harry,  b.  June  6,  1888. 

vi.     Infant,  b.  Dec.  31,   1890  and  d.  soon. 

vii.  Ruth,  b.  Mar.  24,  1892,  in  Clay  Count>-,  Iowa,  m.  Feb.  22,  1911, 
Clyde  A.  Hepvvorth,  b.  July  11,  1889,  at  Clifton,  111.  Children: 
1,  Ralph,  b.  Jan.  10,  1912.     2,  Norman,  b.  Oct.  26,  1914. 

viii.     Infant,  b.  Jan.  18,  1895,  d.  Feb.   15,   1895. 

ix.     Norman  J.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1902. 

X.      Charlotte,  b.  July  23,  1906. 

85.  Norton  William'  Jipson   {Sai^tuel  F.'',  Cyral",  John*,  Micah^, 

]ohn-,  John')  b.  in  Dayton,  Wisconsin,  March  12,  1865,  m. 
Apr.  2,  1889,  at  Evansville,  Wise,  Olie  E.,  dau.  of  Elon  O. 
Hammond,  formerly  of  E.  Montpelier,  Vermont,  b.  Dec.  4, 
1866.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and  graduated  from  the 
Seminary  of  Evansville,  Wise,  in  1885.  Entered  the  Medical 
Department  of  Northwestern  University,  graduating  in  1889; 
located  in  Chicago,  where  he  has  been  in  practice  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  Is  a  member  of  the  various  medical  societies,  in- 
cluding the  American  Medical  Association. 

Children : 

i.  Lucy  Hannah,  b.  Feb.  20,  1891,  m.  Feb.  20,  1914,  James  C.  Mat- 
CHETT.     Child:  Dorothy  Rae,  b.  May  25,   1917. 

ii.  Elon  Hammond,  b.  June  5,  1895.  Graduated  from  W.  Phillips  High 
School  of  Chicago.  Attended  the  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  of  Chi- 
cago. Also  the  Cleveland  Art  School  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Is  a 
Commercial  Artist. 

HI.     Raymond  Norfon,  b.  Sept.  3,  1903. 

86.  George  Frank"  Jepson  {George  M\^,  Harvey'',  David*,  Micah^, 

John-,  John')   '  h.  in  Stamford.  Vt.,  Mar.   13,  1851,  m.  Jan.  4, 


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1873,  Mary  Lee,  of  Stamford.  When  quite  young  he  went  to 
live  with  his  grandparents.  After  their  deaths  he  bought  the 
old  homestead  and  still  lives  in  the  same  place,  near  Stamford, 
Vt. 

Children : 

Minnie,  b.  Oct.  10.  1874,  m.  Arthur  Dean  of  Stamford  who  hokli 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace. 
i.      Andrew,  b.  June  25,  1875,  is  a  farmer  residing  in  Stamford. 

Ch.ancv,  b.  Oct.  13,  1876,  is  a  merchant  in  Wisconsin. 

George,  b.  May  19,  1877, 

M.ARSHALL,  b.  Dec.  21,  1875. 

Robert,   b.   May   13,    1881.     The   last   three  sons   are   all   farmers   in 
Stamford,  Vt. 

Florence,  b.  May  5,  1884,  m.  Harry  Bi.ood,  a  prosperous  dairy 
farmer. 
viii.  NoRlCE,  b.  Dec.  2,  1888,  is  a  farmer  in  Stamford. 
ix.  Elbert,  b.  March  28,  1896,  was  an  exceptionally  good  scholar,  grad- 
uated at  high  school  with  honors;  attended  Princeton  College 
and  would  have  graduated  in  the  class  of  1917,  but  death  over- 
took him  before  he  had  completed  his  studies. 

87.  Lafayette  A.'  Jepson  {George  If'.".  Harvey'',  David*.  Micali\ 

John'',  John^)  b.  Colerain,  Mass.,  Apr.  17,  1856.  m.  first 
1878,  Ella  Coleman,  who  d.  1887;  m.  secondly  in  1890, 
Katie  Hefferman,  b.  Aug.  19,  1868.  He  went  to  Adams, 
Mass.,  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  worked  there  for  eight  years ; 
then  went  to  Pittsfield  and  worked  two  years,  managing  a  farm ; 
V  then  went  back  to  Adams  as  clerk  in  a  general  store;  worked 
there  seven  years ;  then  went  into  the  poultry  business.  He 
raised  and  sold  pit  games  in  all  the  foreign  countries  and  in 
every  state  in  the  Union.  Has  imported  stock  from  various  for- 
eign countries,  including  Japan.  His  game  stock  became  fam- 
ous in  all  parts  of  the  world.  He  retired  from  the  business  ten 
years  ago  and  bought  a  large  dairy  farm  near  Adams.  Keeps  a 
large  herd  of  Holstein  cattle. 

Child  by  first  wife: 
i.       Edna,  b.  Sept.  3,  1882;  now  lives  In  Long  Island,  New  York. 

Children  by  second  wife: 
ii.    Mabel,  b.  July  7,  1897;  graduated  in  June,   1917,  from  high  school, 
iii.     Mildred  A.,  b.  Nov.  21,   1898.     Graduated  from  high  school,  June, 

1917. 
iv.     Charles  L.,  b.  March  23,   19(14;   graduated  from  grammar  school   in 
June,  1917. 

88.  Kdson    A.'    Jepson     (James",    JXavid'',    Davui'.    Mieah\    John-, 

John')     b.'in  Kaston,  Mich.,  Aug.  22,  1859.     m.  Nov.  19,  1879, 


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Hattie  Beatty,  b.  in  Keene,  Mich.,  Sept.  29,  1861.     He  is  a 
dealer  in  poultry  and  a  farmer. 

Children : 

Eddie  A.,  b.  Sept.  1880,  d.  at  age  of  two  weeks. 
i.      Gertrude  B.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1881,  m.  Aug.  3,   1904,  Miles  Dodds,  b.  in 
Saranac,    Mich.   June    1870.      He    is   a   farmer    and    fruit   grower 
near  Old  Grand  River,  Mich.     Children:  1,  Gladys  J.,  b.  Oct.  6, 
1906.     2,  Katherine  E.,  b.  April  20,  1912. 
i.     M.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  29,  1883. 

V.     Robert,  b.  July  27,  1885,  m.  Bernice  Hoover  of  Saranac,  Mich.     He 
is  a  merchant  of  Mullican,  Mich.     Children:   1,  Carl  H.,  b.  Oct. 
7,  1909.    2,  J.  Edson,  b.  April  21,  1913. 
.      H.-\mE,  b.  Nov.  19,  1888,  d.  Jan.  7,  1889. 
A.  Kinney,  b.  Jan.  29,   1890. 
Ev.\  R.,  b.  March  28,  1894. 
James  B.,  b.  April  13,  1896. 


89.  Merton  K.'  Jepson  (James  B.'\  David",  David*.  Micah^,  John^, 
John')  h.  Esston,  Mich.,  Nov.  9,  1861.  m.  in  Keene,  Mich., 
Mar.  18,  1886,  Clara  B.  Parks,  b.  in  Keene,  Mar.  17,  1863. 
He  is  a  farmer  and  has  been  Supervisor  of  Keene  Township  for 
several  years. 


Children: 

Dale  Karl,  b.  in  Keene,  Aug.  11,  1887,  m.  April  21,  1911,  AVis  At- 

WOOD,  b.  Feb.  19,  1888.     No  children.     He  is  in  a  general  store  in 

Saranac,  Mich. 
Melbourn  Ford,  b.  Sept  22,  1891,  d.  Feb.  15,  1896. 
Gl.adys  M.arie,  b.  Feb.  15,  1896,  d.  April  17,  1897. 
Earl  Merton,  b.  Keene,  April  3,  1899. 


90.  Lowell  Ellsworth"  Jepson  (Johtf.  £/P.  Sarmwl*.  Micah^, 
John-.  John^)  b.  Oct.  19,  1863,  at  Cannon  City,  Minn.,  m. 
Sept.  10,  1889,  Ada  Sophia  Whiting.  He  was  brought  up  on 
a  farm,  attended  district  school  and  later  Carleton  College, 
Northficld,  Minn.,  graduated  in  1887  with  Degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Science,  and  ten  years  later  his  Alma  Mater  conferred  upon 
him  the  Degree  of  Master  of  Science  and  elected  him  trustee  of 
the  college,  in  which  capacity  he  is  sf-ill  serving.  After  graduat- 
ing at  college  Mr.  Jepson  settled  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and 
began  in  a  modest  way  the  manufacture  of  artificial  limbs,  which 
business  hr.s  developed  into  the  largest  manufactory  of  artificial 
limbs  in  the  world.  Mr.  Jepson's  thesis  for  his  Master's  De- 
gree was  upon  the  subject,  "Where  and  How  to  Amputate," 
which  was  later  printed  in  condensed  pamphlet  form  and  over 
one-quarter  million  copies  have  been  mailed  to  the  medical  pro- 
fession.    In  1906,  was  erected  at  the  corner  of  14th  and  Wash- 


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JEPSON  FAMILY 


ington  Avenues  North,  the  present  manufacturing  plant.  Mr. 
Jepson  has  always  taken  an  active  and  conspicuous  interest  in 
political  matters.  He  has  heen  a  zealous  champion  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  Party.  In  1898  he  was  elected  State 
Senator  and  served  for  eight  years  and  exhibited  special  interest 
in  Sanitary,  Medical  and  Health  Regulations.  The  state  tu- 
berculosis hospital  at  Walker,  Minn.,  was  largely  the  result  of 
his  personal  work.  Mr.  Jepson  has  been,  time  after  time,  a 
delegate  to  the  Republican  State  and  National  Conventions,  and 
delegate  from  the  Tenth  Minnesota  Congressional  District  to 
the  N'ational  Republican  Convention  in  1916.  He  was  the  Re- 
publican Congressional  nominee  in  1914  and  again  in  1916.  He 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  both  State  and  National 
Questions  and  has  a  reputation  of  being  an  able  campaign 
speaker.  Has  always  been  mostly  actively  engaged  in  Church 
and  Chrstian  work  and  has  been  given  nearly  everv  honor  that 
his  denomination  could  bestow  upon  a  layman.  Is  a  member 
of  the  Pilgrim  Congregational  Church  and  has  served  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  School  for  the  past  twenty-five  years, 
for  several  years  was  president  of  the  Minnesota  Sundav  School 
i*ssociation  and  for  many  years  a  director  of  the  Minnesota 
State  Home  Missionarv  Society  and  during  the  latter  years,  pres- 
ident of  the  Societw  Has  served  as  moderator  in  the  State  Con- 
gregational Association  and  delegate  to  the  National  Congre- 
gational Councils  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions. 


Children : 

Katherine  Ada,  b.  Aug.  23,  1893. 
LVDIA  Marie,  b.  May  13,  1895. 
Charlotte  Blanchard,  b.  March  4,  18 


91.  Frank  Newton'  Jepson  {John'-,  E!r.  Srimurl*.  Miculr,  Jolur. 
John')  b.  June  "l2,  1868.  m.  Oct.  8,  1889,  May  Belle  Wal- 
ROD,  is  vice-president  of  the  Winkley  Artificial  Limb  Co.,  of 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Children : 
i.       Paul  Newton,  b.  Oct.  12,  1893. 
ii.      Ruth  Mu.dred,  b.  March  3,  1895. 


92.  John  Harr>"  Jepson  (.lolm".  E/r,  Sfinuiil\  Miculi'.  Jolur. 
John')  b.  Apr.  11,  1875.  m.  June  18,  1902,  Alma  Sievkrs. 
Lives  in  Minneapolis.  Minn.,  and  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
l"hc  Wiiikle\  Artificial  Limb  Co. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Children : 
i.       Jasper  Jay,  b.  June  4,  1903. 
ii.      Harriet  Bernice,  b.  June  9,  1905. 

93.  William  Austin'*  Jepson  {George\  William'''.  frilliam'\  Sam- 

uel*, WiUiam\  John',  John^)  b.  in  Detroit  City.,  Minn., 
1872,  m.  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  Mar.  28,  1894,  Grace  E., 
dau.  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Stone.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
day  and  evening  schools  of  Boston.  He  began  to  work  at  the 
age  of  twelve  in  the  coal  business,  and  has  been  in  the  coal  bus- 
iness ever  since.  At  present  he  has  a  large  wholesale  business. 
His  office  is  at  No.  85  Devonshire  Street,  Boston.  He  is  treas- 
urer and  general  manager  of  the  Carbon  Coal  and  Coke  Com- 
pany, and  a  director  of  the  Liberty  Trust  Company  of  Boston. 
Mr.  /EPSON  resides  in  Melrose  and  is  a  prominent  citizen.  He 
is  an  active  and  influential  Republican.  He  is  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Melrose  and  has  been  for 
seventeen  years  its  clerk.  He  is  interested  also  in  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  of  which  he  was  for  five  years 
president,  and  is  now  one  of  its  trustees.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Melrose  Savings  Bank  and  was  vice-president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  Southern  Illinois  Coal  and  Coke  Co. 

Children: 
i.       Dorothy,  b.  December  20,  1894,  d.  Jan.  1,  1896. 
ii.      William  Donald,  b.  Nov.  2,  1897. 
iii.     Chauncy  Le  Baron,  b.  March  24,  1907. 

94.  Albert  M."  Jipson    {Norman',  Samuel'',  CyraP,  John*.  Micah^, 

John-,  John')  b.  in  Attica,  Wis.,  Sept.  1,  1882,  m.  Mar.  8, 
1904,  Effie  a.  Crosby,  b.  Aug.  12,  1883.  He  is  a  farmer,  liv- 
ing near  Moneta,  Iowa. 

Children  : 
i.       Alice  Helen,  b.  June  24,  1905. 
ii.      Orva,  b.  June  11,  1909. 
iii.     Duane,  b.  Aug.  24,  1910. 
iv.     Leona,  b.  Dec.  4,  1913. 
V.      Alberta,  b.  Nov.  21,  1915. 

95.  Harry'^    Jipson    (Norman',   Samuel".     Cyrai',     John*,     Micah^, 

John\  John')  b.  in  Attica,  Wis,  June  6,  1888.  m.  Feb.  20, 
1913,  at  Attica,  Wis.,  Ysabel  L.  Swan,  b.  May  13,  1894.  They 
live  on  a  farm  near  Moneta,  Iowa. 

Children : 
i.       Ralph  Alphonso,  b.  May  30,  1914. 
ii.      Fayette,  b.  May  30,  1916. 


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An  inventory  of  the  (^ods,  Rights  and  Estate  of  John  Jepson, 
late  of  Boston,  Deed.,  taken  the  first  of  August  1688,  and  exhibited  by 
Emm  Jepson,  and  John  Jepson,  Administrators: 

£       S       d 

tt  his  wearing  apparel  05  :  00  :  00 

tt  a  bed  bolster  &  pillow  &c  03  :  10  :  00 

tt  two  tables  &  seven  bass  chaires  &  joint  stoole  00  :  15  :  00 

tt  two  brass  potts  &  one  iron  pott  01  :  04  :  00 

tt  Pewter  &  brass  00  :  14  :  00 

tt  Andirons,  tramell,  fire  shovel  &  tongs  UO  :  08  :  GO 

tt  Bookes  00  :  15  :  GO 

In  the  Chamber. 

tt  two  small  featherbeds  &  furniture  04  :  00  :  00 

tt  one  small  table,  two  spinning  wheels,  1  pr  of  cords  00  :  08  :  00 

tt  1  houre  glass  6d  one  old  chest  &  lumber  00  :  05  :  06 

tt  1  farrow  Cow  2  £,  one  small  shoat  00  :  08  :  00 

tt  2  silver  spoones  UO  :  14  :  00 

tt  1  pewter  still  &:  a  worme  02  :  00  :  00 

tt  1   frying  pann  GG  :  02  :  OG 

ip  House  &  Land  in  Boston  21  :  03  :  Go 

120  :  GG  :  00 

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Hugh  Drury 
Bartholemew  Cheever 
Joseph  Webb 

Exhibited  the  21  st  March  1688 

P  Emm  Jepson 

John  Jepson 

The  within  written  Emm  Jepson  and  John  Jepson  appeared  before 
me  and  made  oath  that  the  within  written  is  a  true  and  p  feet  Inven- 
tory of  the  Goods  and  chattells  rights  and  Creditts  of  John  Jepson 
Deced. 

Sworne  before  me 
the  21st  of  March  1688-9 

J.  Dudley 

A  true  copy,  Attest. 

John  R.  Nichols, 

Assistant  Register. 


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Boston,  January  the  — ,  1721.  An  Inventerey  of  the  Parsonall  Es- 
tate of  Mr.  John  Jepson  Carpenter  Deceas^  as  came  to  the  hand  of  Ed- 
ward Paige  adminisstrtor  viz — 

To  1   Kittel  att  20  S  &  tow  small  skillets  att  10  S 

To  one  small  Bras  Morter  2  S.  6  d.  &  one  Iron  Pot  5  s 

To  1  old  Dripping  Pan  6  d  and  one  Luking  Glas  3  s 

To  1  ovell  tabell  att  16  s  and  one  square  ditto  4s6d 

To  10  old  chares  att  10  S  &  one  old  Beed  35  att  2  S 

To  1  pare  old  Curtings  30  S  and  one  Beed  45  d  att  2  S 

To  1  old  Bedsted  and  Cutting  Rods  att  8  S 

To  1  old  Chist  of  drawes  and  one  Tabell  att  20  S 

To  2  old  trunks  5  S  and  one  warming  Pan  att  7  s 

To  1  trammell  1  par  tongs  1  shovell  fier  &  par  dogs  9  s 

To  6  plattes  and  one  dish:  8d  att  18 

To  one  small  Hog  att  15  S 

To  950  foot  Marchanta  bell  Boards  att  5  S 

To  3  plaines  1  ax  1  ad^  1  oger  1  squaier  1  saw  17  S 

John  White  £20  :    2  :    6 

Peregrin  White  James  Wright 

By  the  Honble  Samuel  Sewall,  Esq. 
Judge  of  Probt. 
Suffolk  ss. 

Edward  Paige  Admin^  presented  the  above  written  &  made  oath 
that  it  contains  a  true  &  perfect  Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  John  Jepson 
late  of  Boston  Carpenter  Deceased  so  far  as  hath  come  to  his  knowledge 
and  that  if  more  hereafter  appear  he  will  cause  it  to  be  added. 

John  White,  James  Wright  &  Peregrin  White  at  the  same  time 
made  oath  to  the  apprisement  according  to  Law. 
Jurat  Coram  Samuel  Sewall 

Boston  Feb.  19th,  1721. 

A  true  copy,  Attest, 

John  R.  Nichols 

Assistant  Register 

(C) 

According  to  Bridgman's  "Interments  in  King  Chapel  Burial 
Ground"   there  were  at  least   three  Jepsons  who   were   interred   there. 


Members  of  the  family  visiting  King's  Chapel,  upon  being  told  b\  the 
Sexton  that  he  knew  of  no  Jepson  interments  in  the  Cemetery  have 
been  disappointed. 

The  pastor  states  that  "King's  Chapel"  has  nothing  to  do  with 
what  is  called  "King's  Chapel  Burial  Ground."  When  King's  Chapel 
was  founded  the  Gouvernor  and  Council  gave  the  church  one  corner  of 
the  city  bun.  ing  ground  ;  but  the  church  owns  only  the  ground  on  which 
it  stands — "the  Sexton  of  the  Chapel  could  not  know  who  was  buried 
under  the  Church  and  he  is  not  supposed  to  know  about  the  tombs  in 
the  cemetery  next  to  the  Church." 

(D) 

Benjamin  Rolfe,  bro.  of  Samuel  and  Apphia,  graduated  at  Harvard 
College,  1684,  ordained  minister  at  Haverhill,  1684,  Chaplain  to  Colon- 
ial Troops  at  Falmouth,  1689,  was  killed  with  wife  and  two  children 
by  Indians  at  Haverhill,  Aug.  29,  1708.  From  his  dau.  Eliza,  saved 
from  death  by  heroism  of  slave  Hagar,  and  subsequently  wife  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Checkley  (Harvard  1725)  were  descended  Rev.  Samuel  Check- 
lex.  Harvard  1743,  Eliza,  wife  of  Gov.  Samuel  Adams,  the  wife  of 
Dr.  John  Lathrop  and  John  Lathrop  Motley,  the  historian,  and  Prof. 
Thos.  Motley  of  Harvard  University  and  Samuel  Adams,  Harvard, 
1771. 


(From  N,  G.  Hist.  &  Gtn.  Register.) 


(E) 

Suffolk  Co.  Court  proceedings:  No.  21244,  Benjamin  Jepson  at- 
tached Estate  of  Joseph  Evans  for  the  price  (nine  pounds)  of  a  wigg, 
Feb.  31,  1727,  and  several  others,  following: 

Benjamin  Jepyon  against  Thomas ,  a  long  controversy  regard- 
ing wiggs — mainly  a  hob  wigg,  1733. 

(F) 

Dr.  William  Jepson's  indebtedness  in  Oct.,  1772,  was  1949  pounds, 
10  shillings  and  1 1  d..  Exclusive  of  the  sum  of  592  pounds,  15  shillings 
and  6  d.  due  to  Dr.  Silvester  Gardner  of  Boston.  His  credits  and  Es- 
tate, exclusive  of  his  furniture  and  chirurgical  instruments,  books  and 
riding  horse,  which  are  necessary  for  the  upholding  of  life,  amount  to 
1075  pounds,  12  shillings  and  7  d.  He  was  discharged  from  all  liable- 
ness  for  arrest. 


(Hartford  Records.) 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


(G) 

WILL  OF  MARY  JEPSON. 


In  the  Name  of  God  Amen 

I,  Mary  Jepson  of  Boston  in  the  Common  Welth  of  Massachusets 
single  woman  of  Sound  Disposing  Mind  and  Memmory  Dow  Make  this 
writing  for  my  Last  Will  &  Testiment  and  first  and  Principally  I  com- 
mend my  precieous  &  Immortal  Soul  Into  the  Hands  of  My  Lord  and 
Saviour  Jesus  Christ  For  obtaining  Remison  of  all  my  Sins  and  Etarnel 
Life,  my  Body,  I  Cummit  To  the  Earth  To  be  Buried  in  a  Desant  Man- 
ner and  as  To  my  Worldly  Estate  I  give  &  Bequeth  the  Same  as  Follows 
— Vizt 

I  order  that  all  my  just  Debts  and  funerall  Ecspences  be  paid  as  soon 
as  Conveniently  may  be  after  my  Decese — 

Item  All  my  estate  Reaul  personel  or  mixt  I  give  and  Bequeth  unto 
my  Coson  Margreat  Jepson 

Item  I  give  unto  my  Coson  Mary  Jepson  my  Cloth  Ridingwod  my 
black  Cloaths  my  Wight  Musting  Gown  and  plain  Moarning  Ring — 

I  Dow  hereby  Constitute  my  Coson  Benjamin  Jepson  Executor  of 
this  my  Last  Will  and  Testiment  in  witness  whereof  I  do  hearunto  Set 
my  hand  and  Seal  the  20th  Day  of  July  1785. 

Mary  Jepson  (Seal) 
Witness 
Elias  Thomas 
Elizabeth  Jepson 
Margreat  Jepson 
Registry  of  Probate) 

Suffolk,  ss.        ) 


A  true  copy.  Attest:  Boston  Feb.  17,  1913. 
John  R.  Nichols, 

Assistant  Register. 


APPENDIX  99 

(H) 

Capt.  Robert  Webster,  father  of  Hannah,  was  b.  in  Beverly,  Mass., 

Sept.,  1730.  He  m.  Molly  Burt  of  Wairriver.  He  served  in  the  French 
and  Indian  Wars  and  a  diary  which  he  kept  at  that  time  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  a  descendant,  Mrs.  Isabel  P.  Avery  of  Goshen,  Mass.  He  com- 
manded a  company  of  Minute  Men  who  left  Chesterfield  (Now  Goshen) 
Apr.  21,  1775,  two  days  after  the  battle  of  Lexington,  to  the  defense  of 
that  part  of  the  State.     (See  Barrus'  "History  of  Goshen.") 

He  was  said  to  be  a  grandson  of  Benjamin  Webster  of  Beverly  or 
Salem,  who  was  wounded  in  a  battle  with  the  Narragansett  Indians,  Dec. 
16,  1675  in  a  swamp.  Capt.  Robert  d.  before  Sept.  1,  1778  and  was  bur- 
ied in  Chesterfield.  (See  notes  on  Webster  family  by  S.  P.  Sharpies, 
Genealogies  Quarterly  Mag.  Apr.,  1904  and  Jan.,  1905). 


Luke  Keith  of  Chesterfield  was  a  Corporal  in  Lieut.  Col.  Samuel 
Williams'  Regt.,  Revolutionary  War.  He  also  served  in  other  regiments. 
He  m.  Martha  Littlefield  in  1768;  Children:  Rhoda,  b.  in  Eastown, 
Mass.,  Dec.  2,  1768;  Bertha,  b.  1771  n  Eastown  ;  Ansel,  b.  July  1,  1776 
in  Eastown  and  Mathew,  b.  Feb.  28,  1779,  in  Chesterfield,  m.  Lucretia 
Jepson  of  Goshen.  The  Keiths  were  descended  from  the  Rev.  James 
Keith,  a  Scotchman  educated  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  who  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1662  at  18  years  of  age  and  settled  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.  This 
explains  the  tradition  regarding  the  Scotch  blood  in  some  branches  of  the 
Jepson  family  and  is  perhaps  as  nearly  correct  as  most  traditions  which 
after  the  lapse  of  years  become  distorted  and  changed  in  the  telling,  but 
frequently  are  still  partially  true. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


(J) 


i 


^^o^fj^^^^      2 


The  upper  signature,  date  1609,  is  of  William  of  Amsterdam  (later 
Leyden)  as  it  appeared  on  his  betrothment  to  Rosamond  Horsfield  who 
signed  with  an  R.  That  he  was  closely  related  to  the  early  Boston  Jep- 
sons  seems  probable.  Dexter's  "England  and  Holland  of  the  Puritans" 
gives  more  information  of  the  Jepsons  of  Amsterdam  and  Leyden  than 
any  other  work. 

The  other  signatures  are  of  the  widow,  three  sons  and  grandson  of 
John  1st,  of  Boston. 

Upper  signature — courtesy  of  Dr.  W.  R.  Veder,  Archivist,  Amster- 
dam, Holland.  The  others  were  kindly  secured  for  the  author  from  the 
Suf-folk  County  probate  office  by  William  A.  Jepson. 


APPENDIX  lOi' 

(K)  LUTHER  JEPSON. 

By  Mrs.  Eva  Hanson  Thornton. 

Mar.  25,  1794— Sept.  20,  1869. 

Did  you  ever  turn  your  key  in  the  lock  of  the  door  and  when  you 
step  in  find  the  houfe  empty?  Everything  just  as  you  had  seen  and  re- 
membered it;  but  no  glad  welcome,  no  loving  hand  clasp,  no  joyous  smile 
of  greeting?  The  furniture  stands  as  it  always  stood,  familiar  faces  look 
down  on  you  from  the  wall ;  but  the  air  is  close,  the  clock  is  not  tickmg, 
the  floor  creeks,  there  is  a  suffocating  feeling. 

lust  so  one  feels  when  they  try  to  unlock  the  past  and  step  in  through 
memory  to  the  lives  of  those  dear  ones  long  since  gone,  and  bring  out  to 
the  light  such  bits  of  family  history  or  tradition  as  are  most  vivid  in  their 
recollection. 

In  the  little  village  of  Goshen,  Mass.,  Mar.  25,  1794,  Luther- Jep- 
son  started  his  life  journey  with  five  brothers  and  one  sister.  Little  or 
nothing  is  known  of  those  early  years.  When  he  was  a  lad,  about  1805, 
he  moved  with  his  parents  to  Pownal,  Vermont,  and  later  probably  to 
Litchfield,  N.  Y.,  where  he  dwelt  until  he  fell  in  love  with  one  Betsey 
King  and  followed  her  people  with  a  little  colony  of  New  Englanders  to 
Hammond,  St.  Lawrence  Co.,  N.  Y.  They  secured  adjoining  land  from 
the  "Kenucks"  on  the  old  Military  road.  Here  he  built  a  log  cabin  and 
in  the  course  of  a  year  or  so  married  Betsey  and  together  they  started  on 
the  great  adventure  of  life.  It  was  a  wilderness.  The  road  had  grown 
up  to  brush.  There  was  no  wagon  road  near.  The  land  must  be  won 
from  the  forest.  At  night  they  were  awakened  by  the  howling  of  wolves 
as  thei,  congregated  on  the  ledge  in  front  of  their  home.  The  ground  was 
stoney  and  uneven,  but  it  pleased  his  artistic  sense.  They  had  little,  but 
their  strong,  young  bodies,  great  courage,  faith  in  God  and  in  each  other 
and  a  love  that  lasted  them  through  fifty-eight  years  on  the  same  home 
place.  In  time  they  were  able  to  replace  the  log-house  with  a  little  cot- 
tage, which,  like  the  first,  was  built  by  his  own  hands,  of  timbers  hewn 
from  the  trees  on  the  land,  drawn  by  oxen  to  the  mill  and  then  brought 
back  in  proper  kinds  of  lumber.  In  that  first  home  the  furniture  was  of 
his  own  making  and  he  had  reason  to  be  proud  of  it  as  of  everything  that 
came  from  his  hand.  He  twjk  pride  in  making  his  the  best  garden  in  the 
neighborhood  and  always  found  time  to  cultivate  a  few  flowers  with  the 
common  necessities  of  life.  His  climbing  roses  and  grape  arbor  were  a  joy 
to  the  beholder.  Ever\  thing  they  had  to  wear  or  eat  was  grown  on  the 
place.  Their  strong  abolitionist  principles  amounted  to  a  religion.  One 
day  religious  services  came  within  their  reach  and  in  an  old  log-house  they 
declared  themselves  for  Christ  and  were  baptized  through  a  hole  cut  in 
the  ice.  They  became  Free  Will  Baptists.  Little  opportunity  had  been 
afforded  them  for  an  education,  but  they  were  great  readers  and  when  he 
was  through  with  his  work  for  the  day,  sat  and  read  aloud  from  paper  or 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


Bible  while  she  worked  at  the  loom.  He  had  never  studied  geography,  but 
the  practice  of  always  looking  up  every  place  mentioned  made  them  the 
best  informed  of  any  one  around. 

Seven  little  girls  came  to  bless  and  brighten  this  home — to  increase 
the  burden  and  at  the  same  time  lighten  it.  Then  came  twin  boys.  There 
never  were  such  boys — the  pride  of  all.  Almost  worshiped  by  parents 
and  sisters,  yet  not  spoiled.  They  grew  up  to  be  handsome,  noble  men. 
Three  of  the  little  girls  tarried  but  a  few  short  years,  then  passed  on  to 
that  perpetual  summer. 

Many  of  the  years  were  uneventful.  Others  were  marked  by  inci- 
dents that  made  indelible  impressions.  Crops  were  scanty  and  sometimes 
a  failure.  Disappointments  came  that  were  nearly  crushing.  Sometimes 
it  took  all  of  their  strength  and  ingenuity  to  keep  the  litttle  family  from 
starving,  but  they  never  lost  courage.  They  were  patient  and  toiled  and 
sacrificed  and  economized  and  saved.  They  won  a  name  for  honesty  and 
truthfulness  that  could  not  be  surpassed.  They  were  noted  for  their  in- 
tegrity. To  them  all  turned  for  help  and  advice  and  although  they  were 
very  poor,  never  refused  to  help  others.  They  never  wilfully  wronged 
or  cheated.    They  were  always  looked  up  to. 

The  six  children  who  grew  up  felt  the  struggle  against  poverty.  They 
helped  in  the  field,  with  the  spinning,  at  the  loom;  later  worked  in 
Churches'  mills  and  taught  school.  It  was  their  parents'  ambition  that 
they  have  an  education.  Just  how  they  did  not  know.  There  were  no 
demonstrations,  it  was  not  their  way.  Nto  endearing  phrases,  yet  shining 
eyes  and  their  work  for  each  other  spoke. 

All  were  eager  to  grapple  with  their  hard  tasks  and  make  the  most  of 
every  opportunity.  Exceptionally  good  students  at  home,  they  spent  some 
time  at  school  in  Redwood  and  Gouverneur  Seminary.  They  made  fine 
teachers.  They  were  capable,  frugal  and  from  earliest  recollection  were 
used  to  honest  toil.  They  enjoyed  best  plain,  substantial  people.  They 
were  proud  of  not  being  proud.  Sensitive  to  a  fault.  Cared  most  for  ap- 
proval of  their  own.  Humorous,  fun-loving,  they  never  brought  shame  or 
dishonor  on  the  family  and  through  all  their  years  followed  principles  of 
integrity,  loyalty  and  faith  that  from  earliest  recollection  had  been  im- 
pressed upon  them. 

Years  came  and  went  and  at  last  this  couple  is  left  alone  just  as  they 
had  started  out.  The  journey  is  near  its  end.  She  wrote  to  an  absent 
daughter:  "There  are  lonely  days  and  hours  in  the  old  home  where  there 
used  to  be  so  many  busy  feet  and  tongues  which  made  time  and  cares  pass 
unheeded  ;  but  as  warm  hearts  beat  in  it  as  ever." 

One  early  morning  he  came  in  from  his  chores  and  admitted  that  he 
was  weary.  The  years  of  honest  toil,  hardship  and  frugality  had  brought 
their  reward  and  quietly,  quickly  he  fell  asleep.  The  spirit  slipped  out  of 
the  tired  body  through  the  portals  into  the  City  of  Light,  where  the  faith- 
ful find  rest. 


APPENDIX 


There  were  forty-seven  descendants  and  not  one  of  these  ever 
brought  dishonor  to  his  name. 

Unusually  capable,  quick,  ingenious,  saving  and  cautious,  excellmg 
in  the  sciences,  mathematics  and  hand  crafts.  The  nervous  and  intellect- 
ual was  developed  more  than  the  physical.  They  have  made  superior 
teachers.  They  loved  to  visit,  yet  never  gossiped.  A  little  slow  to  make 
intimate  friends,  but  loyal,  station  in  life  making  no  difference.  Part  have 
been  very  methodical.  Fond  of  pets,  especially  cats.  They  have  never 
fought  ofHi.e,  but  have  filled  capably  such  positions  as  are  continually  be- 
ing offered  them'.  Their  enjoyment  has  not  been  so  much  holding  the 
conspicuous  positions  as  to  have  the  consciousness  that  everything  at  their 
hand  is  well  done.  If  the  work  is  accomplished  they  do  not  care  so  much 
who  has  the  glory.  Their  fondest  hopes  have  been  in  their  children,  and 
when  thiese  have  been  torn  from  them  they  have  been  able  to  say  after 
many  years:  "I  miss  always,  yet  I  would  not  call  back."  Grief  mel- 
lowed into  tenderness  their  natures  and  broadened  their  s)  mpathies. 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


(L) 

DEED  JOHN  JEPSON  Senr  TO  HIS  SON  JOHN  JEPSON  Junr 

"To  All  Christian  People  unto  whome  this  present  Deed  of  Sale 
shall  come  John  Jepson  Senr  of  Boston  in  New  England,  Cordwaynor 
and  Emma  his  wife  send  greeting.  Know  yee  that  wee  the  Sd.  John 
and  Emm  Jepson  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  Summe  of  Eighty 
pounds  currant  money  of  New  England  to  us  in  hand  paid  at  the  en- 
sealing hereof  by  our  dutifull  and  well  beloved  sonne  John  Jepson  Junr 
of  Sd.  Boston,  House  Carpenter  the  receipt  whereof  wiee  doe  hereb\- 
nacknowledge^  Have  granted,  bargained,  sold,  aliened,  enfoef¥ed  and 
confirmed  and  by  these  presents  doe  ffreely  fully  and  absolutely  give 
grant  bargaine  sell  aliene  enfeoffe  and  confirme  unto  the  above  named 
John  Jepson  junr  his  heires  and  assigns  piiece  or  parcel  of  land  and 
wharfe  adjoining  scituate  lyeing  and  being  in  Bo^rton  afforesd  neare  unto 
the  Mill  bridge  with  a  way  or  passage  of  eleven  foot  in  breadth  or  there- 
abouts leading  from  the  Mill  bridge  Street  to  the  sd  land  and  wharfe 
being  butted  and  bounded  Southwestery  by  the  Mill  Creeke  South 
Easterly  by  the  land  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Capt.  Thomas  Luke 
and  Mrs.  Pnddy  Now  or  late  in  the  Tenure  and  occupation  of  William 
Taylor  and  Paddy  and  Mary  Luke,  North  Easterly  with  the  Land  now 
or  late  in  the  possession  of  William  Whitwell  and  Ntorthwesterlv  by 
the  house  and  Land  of  Sarah  Leveritt  the  Relict  of  John  Leveritt  Gov- 
ernor late  Deceased  and  the  aforesd  way  or  passage  of  eleven  foot  wide 
and  the  Land  of  the  Abovesd  John  Jepson  Senr  with  All  way  or  ways 
passage  or  passages  waters  water  courfes  wharfing  easements  privileges 
and  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  Measuring  in  breadth  by  the 
Mill  Creeke  or  ffront  as  well  as  att  the  neare  fforty  two  foot  there- 
abouts and  in  length  One  hundred  ffifty  five  foot  with  all  the  Land  to 
the  South  East  and  North  East  of  the  above  bargained  peice  of  land  and 
wharfing  which  now  is  not  legally  sold  nor  disposied  of  by  us  the  abovesd 
John  Jepson  Sen""  nor  Emm  his  wife  which  they  have  power  soe  to  doe 
whether  now  in  or  out  of  their  possession  together  with  all  other  profitts 
libertyies  rights  commodityes  hereditaments  whatsoever  to  the  sd  pcice  of 
Land  and  wharfing  or  other  the  premisses  or  any  part  thereof  belonging 
or  in  any  wise  appertaining  Reserving  only  the  iifree  use  and  privilegie  of 
passage  way  in  and  through  ye  passage  of  eleven  foot  wide  aforesd  to 
Hav,e  and  To  Hold  the  above  granted  peice  or  parcel  of  land  and  wharf- 
ing and  way  or  passage  being  butted  and  bounded  and  contained  as 
aforesd  with  all  other  the  above  granted  premisses  with  their  and  every 
of  their  rights  members  hereditaments  and  every  part  and  parcel  thereof 
unto  the  Sd  John  Jepson  Juni"  his  heires  and  assignes  To  his  and  their 
only  propr  use  benefitt  and  behoofe  for  ever  and  wee  the  Sd  John  and 
Emm  Jepson  for  our  Selves  and  heires  Executors  and  Administors  doe 
covenant  promisT  and  agree  by  these  presents  that  att  the  time  of  this 
bargaine  and  Sale  and  until  the  Sealing  and  delivering  hereoff  wee  ane 


APPENDIX 


the  true  sole  and  Lawful!  owners  of  the  above  hargained  premisses  and 
of  every  part  and  parcel  thereof  have  in  our  Selves  ffull  power  good 
right  and  Lawfull  authority  to  grant  convey  and  assure  the  same  unto 
the  Sd  John  Jepson  junr  his  heires  and  assignes  as  a  good  perfect  and 
absolute  Estate  Inheritance  in  fee  simple  fifree  and  clear  and  cleenly  ac- 
quitted exonerated  and  discharged  of  and  from  all  former  and  other 
f.'ifts  wrants  bargaines  Sales  bases  Mortgagies  Entaile  joyntures  dowers 
power  of  thirds  and  of  and  from  all  other  titles  troubles  Charges  and  In- 
cumbrances whatsoever  and  that  the  Sd  John  Jepson  junr  shall  and  may 
force  and  h\  virtue  of  these  presents  for  ever  hereafter  Lawfully  peace- 
ably and  quietly  have  hold  use  possess  and  enjoy  \e  abovebargained  and 
every  part  and  parcel  thereof  without  th^  Least  lett  deny  all  suite  trou- 
ble molestatun  of  Sd  John  Jepson  Sen'  or  Emm  his  wife,  doth  further 
covenant  promise  and  grant  for  themselves  their  hieires  and  assignes  to 
and  with  the  Sd  John  Jepson  jun^  his  heires  and  assigns  and  to  and 
with  every  one  of  them  by  these  presents  that  the  Sd  John  Jepson  Sen^ 
and  Emm  his  wife  shall  and  will  att  all  times  hereafter  and  from  time 
to  time  upon  the  request  of  John  Jepson  junr  his  heires  and  assignes 
make  execute  suffer  and  acknowledge  and  doe  or  cause  to  be  made  Exe- 
cuted Suffered  Acknowledged  and  done  all  and  ev.ery  such  farther  and 
reasonable  act  and  acts  thing  and  things  device  and  devices  conveyances 
assureance  in  the  Law  whatsoever  as  shall  be  reasonably  advised  de- 
vised or  required  by  the  Sd  John  Jepson  Jun""  his  heires  or  assignes  or  his 
or  their  Council  learned  in  the  Lawe»  for  the  further  mon?  perfect  as- 
surance surety  and  sure  making  and  Conveying  of  the  before  mentioned 
premis''es  with  the  appurtenances  unto  ye  Sd  John  Jepson  Juni"  his  heires 
and  assignes  for  Ever 

In  Witnesse  whereof  the  Sd  John  Jepson  Sen^  and  Emm  his  wife 
have  hereunto  putt  their  hands  and  Seales  this  Eighteenth  day  December 
Anno  Dom  One  thousand  and  Six  Hundred  Eighty  and  ffive,  1685 

Signed  Sealed  and  (    John  Jepson 

Delivered  in  the  ( 

presence  of  Us  (   &  a  Seale  on 

Joseph   Penrose  ( 

Richard  Brooke  (   a  Labelle 

Sam**!  Mannev  ( 

( 
( 

(    Emm  Jepson 
( 

(    &  a  Seale  on 
( 
(    a  Labelle 


Suffolk  Co.  Deeds.    460  Liber  XIII 


JEPSON  FAMILY 


(M) 

ADDENDA 

The  1 800  Census  shows  : 

Lemule  C  Gipson,  Orange  Co. 
North  Carolina — Males  under 
10  years,  2;  Over  26  and  under 
45,  1:  Females  under  10,  2; 
Over  16  and  under  26,  1  ;  Ovier  26 
and  Under  45,  1. 

As  the  name  is  often  written  "Gipson"  it  jeems  quite  probable 
that  this  record  refers  to  Lemuel  C.  Jiepson. 

Frank  Dodge,  b.  Charlestown,  May  18,  1854,  m.  Oct.  15,  1879, 
Alice  Jeanette  Hodgson.  Child:  Louise,  b.  Apr.  10,  1882,  m.  Oct.  14, 
1907,  Chester  Leland,  son  of  Jarmes  Edwards  and  Adeline  Louise 
(Harding)  Whitaker  of  Somerville. 


INDEX 


All  females  are  indexed  under  their  maiden  names. 

Francis  L 41 

Frankie     41 

Ina  A 41 

Prudence  E 41 

ANDREWS 

Henrietta    50 

ATWOOD 

Avis    ...90 

AVERY 

Isabel  P.  (Mrs.)  99 

BABCOCK 

Caroline    45 

Clarissa     32 

Clark    32 

DeWitt,  C 32 

Dorothy    32 

Eramus  D 32 

Ethan  Allen  32 

Joseph  32 

Judson    32 

Luke   32 

Matthew  M 32 

Rosetta   32 

Stevens  V 32 

Welcome    Lorenzo    32 

BADGER 

C.\nthia     75 

BAGLEY 

Elizabeth    38 

Hufzh   M 38 

BAIRD 

Elizabeth  L 87 

BARNES 

Lena    61 

BARROWS 

Fannie  F 64 

BARTLETT 

Sarah    M 88 


ABBOTT 

William    

36 

ADAMS 

Mav    

74 

Samuel    

97 

AGERS 

Jane  M 

63 

ALDERMAN 

Dacola    

73 

ALDRICH 

Arthur    

41 

C  Roval  

65 

Harrv 

65 

Henr^    M 

65 

Leon   H 

65 

Mable  1 

65 

William  E 

65 

ALLEN 

Frank   E 

46 

ALMO 

Alex 

54 

ALWARD 

Hortense  W 

75 

AMES 

Elizabeth     

55 

Ethel     

55 

Helen    

55 

Jessie   M 

55 

Joseph   F 

55 

Pauline   

55 

Richard     

55 

Ruth   

55 

AMO 

Felix     

....55 

George    

55 

ANDERSON 

Bertha  .Mav 

41 

Carrie   Elizabeth    ... 

41 

Charles   E 

41 

BATE 

David   29 

Patience    29 

BATES 

Nehemiah  29 

BAXTER 

Barbara 87 

BAYSINGER 

Carroll   W 88 

Cyral    ." 88 

Edwin     88 

Francis   88 

Frank 88 

BEASLY 

Hannah    26 

BEATTY 

Hattie  90 

BECKWITH 

Angie    67 

Cora   J -, 67 

Marria  A 67 

Minerva  67 

William  G 67 

BENDER 

Emma  52 

BERRY 

Charles   84 

BIGELOW 

Daniels   30 

Emma  30 

Maria    30 

Nancy  30 

BIRMINGTON 

Mary  Ann  50 

BISHOP 

Alfonso  47 

BLAIR 

Lydia    39 

May    39 

Victor   39 

BLANDEN 

Chas.    H 40 

Clara  J 40 

George  H -40 

Henry    H 40 


Leonard   H 40 

Lucia  M 40 

BLAZER 

John    S 35 

BLEWETT 

Bob  84 

Ennis    84 

J.    Nathan   84 

Jesse    84 

Katherine   84 

Mary   Lou    84 

Robert  Lee  84 

Roy  V 84 

BLINN 

James    33 

BLODGETT 

Edwin     74 

BLOOD 

Harry  89 

BLUNT 

Montgomery    60 

BLY 

Jane    68 

BOWLER 

Robert  W 51 

Vernon    51 

BOYD 

Mira  67 

BRADLEY 

Ben   85 

Marv  F 85 

Wiilis  85 

BRAENDELE 

Veronica  .73 

BRATTON 

Mary    71 

BREEDLOVE 

Montgoomery    60 

BRESETTE 

Harold  D 56 

Leon  J 56 

BREZEE 

ib  rariic    3 1 

Goldie  E 51 


Harriett   A 51 

William  M 51 

BRICE 

Naomi     44 

BRIGGS 

Minnie   E 62 

BROOK 

Anna     > 26 

Mary    26 

BROTHERSON 

Rozalia  56 

BROWN 

Charles  W 58 

Henry  56 

Henry  V 58 

John    87 

Josie   87 

Marcus  M 44 

Mary    44 

Mary   G 63 

Maud   : 44 

Minnie   47 

William  S 60 

BRUCE 

Abbie  J 47 

BUCHANAN 

Anna     64 

BULSON 

Albert  E 43 

Charles  H 43 

Herman    H 43 

Maxine  L 43 

William   H 43 

BURGESS 

Benjamin    (Dr.)    29 

BURNHAM 

Levi    55 

BURT 

Molly  99 

CALLAHANE 

Daniel   C 75 

CALL 

Mary    39 


CALLOWAY 

Elizabeth  Clare  37 

Harr)-   37 

Mary  Jane  37 

\/.  J.  37 

Wilhelmina    37 

CAMP 

Adeline  33 

Adolphus    33 

Charles   33 

Dexter    33 

Edward    33 

Eliza  33 

Parmelia  33 

Swazy     33 

CANTERBURY 

Lydia    65 

CAVALLO 

James    F 63 

CARPENTER 

Arthur    68 

Asa 68 

Henry  N 68 

Ida    47 

Jimmie  M 68 

CHAMBERLAIN 

N 61 

CHATMAN 

Delia    61 

CHECKLEY 

Eliza  97 

Samuel    97 

CHINEY 

Everett   L 46 

Fred  B 46 

Lampson    F 46 

CHIPMAN 

Henrietta    39 

Joseph     39 

Joseph  Albert  39 

Mary  Winslow  39 

Phoebe    39 

Sarah   Frances   39 


CHURCH 

J.  L 51 

Calvin     73 

CLARK 

Evangeline  M ■<J 

George    45 

Hanney   S i-"^ 

Harriett   L 45 

Lita 4S 

Mary  S. 45 

Soane  B 45 

Willis  G 45 

CLARKSON 

Franlc   Melvin   .'w' 

George   Evan?   ..37 

J.  R. 37 

Josephine    37 

CLEMONS 

Elizabeth    36 

Harrett    Ang"!!!!?    36 

James  H 36 

Martha     36 

Mary    - 36 

Minnie   36 

Rachel     36 

Savilla     36 

Susan    36 

CLAPPER 

Mary    48 

COBB 

Allen    73 

George    73 

CODDINGTON 

Emma    25 

John    25 

CODY 

Sanora  V 36 

COLEMAN 

Carman     43 

Carol    43 

Donald   43 

Dorothy    43 

Ella     89 

Lewis  C 43 


Kenneth 43 

Samuel    43 

CO LETT 

Rosie     55 

CONANT 

Emeline     63 

COOPER 

Josiah   26 

COURT 

Caroline    M 46 

COX 

Charles   36 

Cody   Colwell    37 

Colwell  C 36 

Genevieve  Myrtle  37 

Gerge   Abeber   37 

George  Lay  37 

Hugh    37 

Jesse    29 

Lemuel   29 

Mary    37 

Sonora     37 

Thankful    29 

Vernecia   37 

Virginia  Bell  37 

W.  A 36 

William    29 

William   Ley   37 

CRICHTON 

Ambrose   63 

Margarite   1 63 

William    63 

CROSBY 

Effie  A ■32 

GUSHING 

Abigail    38 

DALY 

Jerry     36 

DANFORTH 

David   72 


DANIELS 

Mercy     26 

DARMER 

Harry    36 

DARROW 

Arthur    73 

DAVIS 

Clara  E 40 

Elmer   40 

Gertrude     44 

John    44 

Lucy   70 

DAVIDSON 

Charles   61 

George  S 61 

James  D 61 

DAWSON 

Mattie    61 

DA\' 

Anna   Adelia    56 

Carrie  E. 56 

Florence   56 

Julia  M 56 

Lillian  A 56 

M.  W.  James  56 

DEAN 

Arthur    89 

Hannah    36 

DENNING 

Charles  47 

DENNISON 

Hannah     30 

DEWEY 

Ella  W 75 

DICKERMAN 

Isaiah    41 

Louisa     41 

Olive  41 

Oliver     41 

Samuel    41 

DINNING 

Anna  L 60 

Ila   Dean    60 

James    37 


James  D 60 

James   W 59 

James  William  59 

Mary  R 60 

Susan  R 59 

William 37 

DODDS 

Gladys    90 

Katherine    90 

Miles    90 

DODGE 

Albert  E 57 

Arthur    57 

Cabeb    31 

Frank   57 

George    57 

Percy     57 

DRAKE 

Eugene    Milton   38 

James   D 62 

James    L 38 

Josh     62 

Vera  M 62 

DRAPER 

Edna  42 

Emma  42 

DREON 

Agnes    P 60 

Charlie  O 61 

Dora  E 61 

Edith   1 60 

Edna     61 

George  J 60 

George  T 61 

George    W 60 

Georgia  M 61 

Grace  M 60,  61 

Hettie  61 

Henry  J 60 

James  M 60 

Jessie     61 

Josie    F 61 

Kirk    H 61 

Myrtle    61 

Rusell    S 61 

Ruth   E 60 


Susie     61 

Tilford  D 61 

DRURY 

Emma     74 

DUNN 

Charley     73 

Elnia     73 

Elvira   '3 

DUNNING 

Alva  G 38 

Henry     39 

Susan     3v 

EATON 

Chester   46 

Marie    +6 

EDWARDS 

Anabella   P - 47 

Angelia   M 47 

Franklin   P 47 

Leland  A 47 

Lysander     47 

Norris     47 

Reuben  J 47 

Robert    R 47 

EGLY 

John    36 

ELDRIDGE 

Ethel     55 

Florence   55 

Helen    55 

James    55 

Henry   55 

Margarete    55 

ELLIOTT 

Edmund   A 40 

Inez   Cuba   40 

Thelma  A 40 

ELLIS 

Amaziah  D' 71 

ELLSWORTH 

James    47 

ENNIS 

Gussie  A 61 


ESTES 

Clara     72 

Cyrus    46 

Eda   46 

Hattie   46 

Kane   46 

Lovern    46 

EVANS 

Davis    Romeo    37 

Hazel    Vaughan    37 

Nelson   Vaughan   37 

Ruby  Vaughan  37 

Thomas     37 

EXFORD 

Betsey   47 

FALLS 

Harriett  Anna  57 

FERMAN 

Charles  A 42 

Clark  F 42 

Cural  L 42 

Frank 42 

Jacob 42 

James  E.  P 42 

John  H 42 

Mary  A 42 

Myron    A 42 

Phoebe  A 42 

Samuel    42 

FIELD 

A.  H 42 

FITCH 

Emma  A 85 

-  FITZSIMMONS 

F.  C.    (Dr.)    49 

Grace    49 

Ruth     49 

FLECK 

Oliver  L 68 

FLETCHER 

Edna  Frances  39 

Freddie   Warren    39 

Laura    39 

Mabel  Abbie   39 

Warren     39 


FOLEY 

Margaret    74 

FONDA 

Sophia     76 

FOOTE 

George    48 

Havden   B 48 

Hettie    E 48 

Oney  B 48 

V'esta  E. 48 

FOSTER 

Maude    46 

62 

FOWLER 

Ammoil   E 50 

Loren    L' 50 

Mary  A 50 

Robert  E 50 

GABBERT 

Effie  M 58 

Keeler  H 58 

GALLAGHER 

Edward     49 

Eleanor     49 

Dorothy    49 

Genevieve 49 

Hubert 49 

Hugh    49 

GARDNER 

Amanda  F 84 

J.  W ^. 49 

Mildred  C 49 

Oliver    J 84 

Richard     26 

Sylvester   (Dr.) 28 

GATES 

Carrie   E.    M 87 

GILBERT 

Lucien    J 44 

GILLESPIE 

Annie    84 

Atha    84 

Billie     6i 

Buelah     84 


Cecil    61 

Charley     84 

Davis    .61 

Emma  61 

Eugene  L 62 

Evelyn  B 62 

Fanny   B 83 

George  62,  61 

George  C 62 

George   H.   61 

George  W 62 

Hannah     85 

J.  Will  62 

James    M 62 

James  W 83 

John    W 83 

Lucille    62 

Luther    61 

Martha  J 83 

Mary  R 62 

Mellissa    84 

Nelson    61 

Nannie    61 

Rebecca     62 

Simpson     83 

Tom    61 

Vivian     84 

GOIN 

Boaz    84 

Cornelius    84 

Jim    L 84 

GOODING 

Ann     29 

GOODMAN 

Samuel 38 

GOODRICH 

Albert   71 

Clarence    71 

Ena     71 

Howard    71 

GRAWBARGER 

Henry   76 

GRAINGER 

Hud     S3 

(GRAHAM 

Robert     48 


GRANT 

Albert    J 52 

Alice   S 52 

Colin  M 87 

Eddy  52 

Irenus  H 51 

Jean   M.. 87 

John   A 87 

Lillian  Terressa  52 

Luther    52 

GRAVES 

Anna   M 65 

Harley   H 65 

Lewis  E 65 

Margarite   M 65 

Mary    E 65 

Myron    W 65 

GRAY 

Alice   M 64 

Edward  J 64 

Elizabeth    J. 64 

Lucinda   S 50 

GREENE 

Edwin  F 50 

Ida  E 50 

Lillian  A 50 

GREENWOOD 

Elizabeth    64 

GREY 

Elizabeth   M 54 

Joseph     54 

GRISWOLD 

Betsey   44 

Reuben    44 

HADLEY 

Elvira    36 

Gideon    36 

Lawrence    36 

Levi    36 

Marietta   36 

HALL 

(Miss)   35 

Agnes    78 

Charles     78 

Flora    65 


Lot    31 

Mary  J 86 

Samuel    31 

Sarah    G 86 

Isabell    M 78 

HAMMOND 

Elon  0 88 

Olie  E 88 

HANDY 

Leila   65 

William  F 65 

HANSON 

Alfred  J 53 

Andrew     52 

Betsy  Aurelia  53 

Clifford  53 

Eva     52 

Lester    53 

Luther  J 53 

Marie    53 

Ruby  Samantha   53 

HARBIN 

Addie    35 

HARDING 

Elizabeth   E 54 

Harold    W 54 

Nina  Ruth  54 

Robert    H 54 

HARRINGTON 

Abel    49 

HARRIS 

Maude    61 

Rose    73 

HATHAWAY 

Cora    76 

HAWKINS 

Ebenezer     29 

HEALY 

Annie    49 

HEARY 

Clifford    55 

Fred    55 

Myrtle    55 


HEFFERMAN 

Katie     89 

HELMUND 

Arthur  C 65 

Arthur  W.- 65 

Paul   D 65 

Violet  A 65 


HEWES 

Joseph   

HENDRICKS 

Anita  G 

Clark  J 

Frances   E. 
Lenora  H. 
Martha  G. 
Moses  C.   .- 
Willis   E.   .. 


.74 


HENRY 

Sophie    Jacobson    37 

HEPWORTH 

Clyde  A. 88 

Norman    88 

Ralph    88 

HIBBARD 

Eliza   32 


HOLCOMB 

AUene   62 

Ban   W 61 

Bob   L 61 

Chas.  B 62 

F.  Joseph  62 

(jeorge  J 61 

George  W 61 

John  E 62 

Lizzie    62 

Mabel  C 62 

Mar>-  L 62 

Moliy   62 

Rachel     65 

Sam  H 62 

Sarah  E 62 

Sydney    61 

Tern,-    L 62 

Thomas   G 62 

Tom   A 62 


HOLLENBECK 

Edith    35 

HOLMES 

J.   Albert   93 

HOLT 

Hannah 39 

Stephen     39 

HOWE 

Chester  N 49 

HOWES 

Anna   G 64 

HOOVER 

Bernice    90 

HORTON 

Aurelia    72 

HOSFORD 

\.  illiam 31 

HOUGHTALINiG 

Arthur  A 72 

HOUGHTON 

Betsy  56 

HOWARD 

Susie    46 

William    44 

HOWE 

Austin  49 

Charlotte    M 49 

HUBBARD 

Arlene     46 

Helen    46 

Roland    46 

HUBBS 

Charles  A 63 

HULLIBERGER 

Adoli  M 47 

Albert  L 47 

George  E 47 

Hildah    47 

Pearl   E 47 

HUNTING 

William    57 


HUNTER 

Annie  E 55 

Cairie    M 55 

Clarence   B 55 

Cornelia  J 55 

Earl    55 

Edna   B 55 

Eliza    56 

Ellen     54 

Emma  55,  56 

Ethel  M 55 

Eugene  R 59 

Florence  G 55 

Frank    H 55 

George    55 

George  W 55 

Gilbert  S 55 

Gladys  M 55 

Genn  V    55 

Hannah    55 

James  54,  55 

James  A 55 

Julia    56 

Lena    5:) 

Llovd   D 55 

Mary    55 

Murray   G 55 

Robert   55,   56 

Sarah     55 

Theron    55 

Virgel  D 55 

Warren  56 

William   H 55 

Willis    55 

INGRAM 

Susan    64 

IRWIN 

Electa    72 

JEFFERSON 

27 

JENKINS 

Cecil  Bertram    38 

H.  W 38 

Julia  Bell  38 

Mary    Elizabeth     38 


JENNINGS 

Emma  C 60 

JEPERSON 

Thomas    27 

JEPHERSON 

Tliomas    27 

JEPSON 

A.  Kinney    90 

Aaron    32 

Abby   38 

Abigail  26,  32 

Ada     45 

Adelaide    L 64 

Agnes   A 78 

Agnes  G 87 

Agnes  P 78 

Albert  72,  76 

Albert  G 53 

Albert   L 78 

Albert    M 77 

Alfred  K 53,  77 

Alonzo    C 53 

Alverdo     65 

Alvin  A 74 

Alvira   46 

Amanda  52,   57 

Amos  C 82 

Amy    L 57 

Andrew     89 

Andrew  J 49,  73 

Anna  26 

Ann     30 

Anna  L 64 

Annie    49 

Anson  44,  56 

Apphia    26 

Armina   71 

Augustis    76 

Aurelia    52 

Avis     45 

Belle   J 84 

Beniamin,  26,  27,  29,  30, 
32,  35,  37,  38.  49,  59, 
62,     93,     97,     98,     100 

Benjamin   F 59 

Benjamin  W 85 

Bert  C.  76 


Bertha  E 54 

Betsy  31,  33.  56 

Calista     40 

Carl    H 90 

Caroline    38 

Carrie   72 

Carrie  F 78 

Cassander    83 

Cassander,  L 59 

Catherine 47,    54,   57 

Catherine  A 75 

Celia  50,  53 

ChancT   89 

Charity   56 

Charles  45,  38,  46 

Charles  B 51,   76 

Charles  E 85,  87 

Charles   F 77 

Charles    H 40 

Charles  L 39,  89 

Charles   W 74 

Charlotte  B 91 

Charlotte  M 86 

Chauncey    L.     92 

Chester    F 59 

Clara  B 74 

Clara    E 78 

Clement  E 77 

Cora  A 76 

Cora  B.    ". 76 

Cvral     31 

Dale  K 90 

Daniel     30 

David..29,  32,  33,  46,  48 

David  A 73 

David    D 65 

Donald   H 87 

Dora  71,  73 

Dorice  80 

Dorice  E 67 

Dorothy    92 

Dujilas  C 87 

Dwitrht  87 

Dwifiht  S 41 

Dvcr  Palmer    49 

Earl   M % 

Eddie  A 90 

Edna  89 


Edson  A 73,  89 

Edward     74 

Edwin  H 87 

Elbert   89 

Electa  32,  47 

Electa  J 76 

Eli   33,   50 

Elida  78 

Eliza 27,    39,    49,    54 

Eliza  J 80 

Elizabeth  27,  29,  98 

Elizabeth    G 86 

Elizabeth  Green    89 

Elizabeth    Hart    30 

Ella   M.irin    75 

Ellen   38,   74 

Elmer  A 71 

Elmer   V 80 

Emeline  C 48 

Emm  95,   100,   104 

Emma  26,  27 

Emma  F 64 

Emma  I   85 

Ennis    71 

Enos  P 75 

Enos    Palmer    49 

Ephraigm    80 

Ephraigm  M 59 

Eric  C 87 

Erwin    73 

Esther  31,  40 

Ethel   M 87 

Eva  R 90 

Evelina    M 71 

Evelyn     50 

Everett    50 

Everett  M 50 

Fannie     32 

Fannie  A 85 

Filimia    56 

Flora  Everetta  57 

Florence    89 

Florence    E 87 

Florence  M 85,  86 

Forrest  31,  40 

Frances  Ashbury  38 

Frances   E 76 

Francis   33 


Frank 65,  78 

Frank  N 77,  91 

Frank    P 64 

Frank  S 75 

Qeorge,    49,    56,    74,    77, 
18,  89 

George    B.    75 

George  E 64,  85 

George  F 71,  88 

George    P 49 

George    R 64 

George  N 45,  71,  86 

Gertrued   B 90 

Gladys  M 90 

Gwendoline  B 87 

Handel   L 57 

Hannah  ...27,  29,  30,  32 

Harold    C 87 

Harriett....47,    51,    49,    73 

Harriett    A 65 

Hariett   B 92 

Hariett   E 92 

Harriett    M 75 

Harvey  35,  45,   72 

Hattie  84,  90 

Havnes    83 

Helen   A 49 

Henrietta    57 

Henrietta  A 87 

Henn-,    28,    30,    31,    49, 
74 

Henrv  C 38 

Henrv  H 50,  76 

Henrv   J 74 

Henr\'    M 65,    87 

Herbert   50,   57 

Herbert    H. 85 

Howard    E 64 

Hulda     .73 

Hygeia  M 74' 

Ida  72.  84 

Ida    M 76 

Ilzada  44 

Ida  J 87 

Irene     64 

Isaiah    29 

James,  26,  28,  48,  74,  80 


James  B.,  32,  47,  61,  72, 
90 

James  L 58,  64 

Jane  E 65,  72 

Jasper    92 

Jefferson   H 76 

Jerome    50 

J.  Ed&on  90 

Jesse   i3,  37,  44 

Jessie    F 59 

Jesse  J 61,  84 

Jessie     85 

Jessie   M.   77 

Jessie    0 54 

Jessie  W 80 

John,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29, 
30,  31,  33,  38,  45,  50,  57, 
62,  72,  74,  93,  95,  96, 
100,   104 

John   H 74,   77 

John   L 57,    76 

Joel  33,  54,  72 

Joel  H 76 

Joseph  30,  32,  38,  44 

Joseph   B 64,   65 

Joseph  C 65 

Joseph   J 29 

Tulia  G 53 

Julie  38,   53,  57 

Katherine    91 

Lafayette  A 71,  82 

Lawrence  28,  37,  71 

Lemuel   59,  62,  63 

Lemuel  Cox  30,  45 

Lena  B 75 

Lee  M 50 

Levi  72 

Lewis  E. 65 

Lewis  R 49,  75 

Leora 75 

Lillie  76 

Lora  A 71 

Lorenzo  Dow 33.  49 

Lorenzo  Dow,  Jr.,    50,  75 

Louisa  62,  65,  67,  85 

Lovick  63 

Lowell  E 77,  90 


Lucinda 37,  45 

Lucinda  M 63 

Lucinus  73 

Lucretia  31,  99 

Luther 33,  50,  101 

Lvdia  30 

Lydia  M 9L 

Lyman  65 

Mabel   89 

Mabel  A 57 

Marcia   31,  40 

Margaret  .-28,  29,  31,  40 

Margaret  Jane  67 

Maggie  B 78 

^L^rshall  89 

.\L-irtha  29,  33 

^L1rthene    61 

Marv  .26,  30,  27,  38,  29, 
ii.  40,  45,  54,  72,  76,  93, 
98. 

AL-irv  A 64,  85 

.\Lnrv  B.  -. 75 

^L^rv  C 76 

MarvE.,  64,  71,  80,84,85 

Marv  L 59,  86,  73 

ALirv  S 87 

Melbourn  F 90 

^L  Elizabeth 90 

Melvina 65 

Merton  K 73,  90 

Mercy  29 

Minerva  Amanda  49 

Mildred  A 89 

Minnie    89 

Micah  27,  28,  29,  32 

Mona  N 87 

Moses   32 

Mav 76 

May  E 38 

Myron  72 

Nathan  C 39 

Nancy 31 

Nancy  G 58 

Nannie 61 

Nellie    76 

Nelson  B 73 

Nina    34 


N.  Julie .84 

Nora  78 

Noah  H.  ..., 73 

Oren   65 

Orren    40 

Orrin  54 

Orsemus    54 

Orson  F 59 

Orson  H 61 

Otis  B 64 

Patience  H 48 

Patsy  35 

Patsy  Ann  58 

Patsey  J 83 

Paul  M 91 

Paul  R 86 

Percival  C 87 

Percy  N 65 

Pollv  32,  33 

Porter   H 76 

Rachel  35,  46 

Ray   76 

Rebecca 29,  30 

Reuben  Wright 49 

Richard  27 

Robert 89,  90 

Robert  H 78 

Robert  M 38 

Ruben 32,  45,  72 

Rubin  N .76 

Ruth  26,  49,  72 

Ruth  A 74 

Ruth  1 54 

Ruth  M 79,  91 

Ruthie  May  83 

Salem 33,  54 

Sally  31,  32 

Samantha  45,  52 

Samuel,  28,  29,  30,  ^3,  38, 
39,  64 

Samuel  G 64,  86 

Samuel  M 87 

Sarah  26 

Sarah  C 57 

Sarah  E 65 

Simpson  82 


Simpson  M 59 

Sophia  38 

Sophira    45 

Susan  60 

Susan  A 83 

Susan  E 65 

Susan  F 65 

Terressa    50 

Theodocia  32 

Thomas,  27,  33,  38,  87,  56, 
101,  102 

Tirza 31 

Typhosa 45 

Ulysses  G 80 

Venice  45,  71 

Vera  M 87 

Vernon  M 57,  79 

Walter 76 

Warren  56,  78 

Webster  32 

William,  26,  27,  28,  32,  34, 
35,  38,  39,  45,  63,  64,  83, 
93,  97,  100 

William  Addison  57 

William  Andrew  63 

William  Austin 92,  100 

William  B 76 

William  D 92 

William  H 27  ,64 

William  L 80 

William  M.  Kendice   ...38 

Willis  35,  57 

Willis  L 34,  82 

Willie  J 74 

JILSON 

Jennie   46 

JIPSON 

Ada  71 

Albert  M 88 

Alberta    92 

Alice  E 88 

Alice  H 92 

Alee  J 66 

Almon 44,  67 

Arthur  M 88 


Charlotte  88 

Clark  66 

Clark  F 42 

Cyral 41,42,44 

Duane   92 

Elizabeth  M 68 

Ellen  67 

Elon  H 88 

Fayette 02 

Flora  B 71 

Fred  E 87 

George  W 68,  87 

Harrv'  88,  92 

Harriett  E 66 

Helen  M 67 

Hellen  L 68 

Henry  44,  79 

Hepsibeth   H 42 

Leona 92 

Lucreita  F 43 

Lucy  H. 88 

Manus  44 

Maria  A 67 

Mary  A 70 

Nfti-man  J 66,  88 

Noiton  W 66,  88 

Oren    67 

Orrin  W 44,  68 

Orva   92 

Phebe 44 

PhebeH 41 

Ralph  A 92 

Raymond  N 88 

Ruth   88 

Samuel  F 42,  44 

Sarah  Bush  ., 29 

Sarah  H 42 

Seth  R 44 

Seth  S 41,65 

Verne  N 87 

Webster  43 

Webster  C 69 

William  S 66,  87 

JOHNSON  LL 

Ada  M 87 

Alice  46 

Martin  N 57 

Myrtle 64 


JOHNSTON 

Emma  84 

JORDAN 

Amelia  44 

Arthur  44 

Anzella  44 

Edgar 44 

Edwin  A .44 

Elijah 44 

Elizabeth  44 

Eva  J 44 

Henry   44 

Horatio  44 

Jordan  44 

Julis  44 

Marcia 44 

William  E 44 

JUSTICE 

Anc^rew  ib 

Armenia  Dean  36 

David    35 

John  36 

Nancy  36,  37 

Stewart    36 

KARCHES 

Al 61 

KEITH 

Ansel  99 

Bertha  99 

James  (Rev.)  99 

Luke  33,  99 

Martha  33 

Matthew 31,  99 

Rhoda  99 

KELLY 

Ella  53 

Genevieve   49 

James  Bernard  49 

John  Francis  .49 

William 49 

KELLY 

Eva   55 

F.J 54 

Gladys 54 

John  26 


Leo    54 

KELSEY 

Foster  M 65 

KENDALL 

Frances 85 

KILBOURN 

Helen  77 

KIMBAL 

Marrion    72 

KIMBALL 

Alice  Ella  50 

Amy  Irene 50 

Byron  E 50 

Dtevid  50 

Elsie  M 50 

Truman  D 50 

KING 

Betsy  101 

Lottie  E 42 

KIRK 

Antoinette  37 

George 37 

James 37 

John  37 

Joseph  37 

Mary  Ann  .37 

Minta    61 

Wilton  ...37 

KNAPP 

Clarissa  S 74 

KRAKE 

Alva 78 

LANDON 

Alice  M 41 

Bertha  C 41 

Dwight   41 

Edgar  F 41 

Etta  G 41 

Frank  W 41 

Fred  H 41 

Grace  E 41 

Hannah  P 41 

John  E 41 


Sarah  H +1 

Warren  E '^l 

LAWSON 

Alfred  +8 

LEACH 

Asa 28 

B«^y ij 

Clarissa  -^ 

Elii^abeth  ^l 

Eliott  J +0 

Emily  M 40 

Everett  E ^ 

Forrest  f^ 

Janet  ^\ 

-10 
Lorenzo ^ 

Marry  E ^5 

LEARY 

Alice  E 55 

Anna  M ^5 

Bernard  W 55 

Daniel  E 55 

George  M 55 

Lena    55 

Rosaleau    -'-' 

LE  BARON 

Francis    -^5 

LEE 

Clara  A +9 

Mary  ^^ 

LEIGH 

Benjamin  W 63 

Margaret  ^^ 

Mary  W ^^ 

LEMMON 

James  -'- 

Lemuel    •'-' 

Lucinda  -^^ 

^Lirgaret  C ^5 

Martha  A 35 

Mary  ■-■ ^5 

Washington  35 

Wilham  ^5 


LEVERITT 

John 10+ 

Sarah  10+ 

LEWIS 

Amanda  F 84 

LITTLEFIELD 

Martha  ^^ 

LOCKIE 

Eva   5■'■ 

LONG 

Martha  T 51 

LOVELL 

A.  J II 

Alfred  Mooore  JJ 

Albert  M 36 

Charles    36 

Charles  A 39 

Colson  L 36 

Emma  3^ 

Francis  Marion 36 

Johanne  Ley  37 

John  L 39 

Louie  M 36 

Lucinda  •'•' 

Marguerite  Jane   35 

Martha  36 

Sarah  A 35 

LUDWIG 

Martha  -^^ 

LUKE 

Mary  ^^^ 

Paddy  jo^ 

Thomas  104 

LUNDERMAN 

Anna  55 

Belva  55 

Dazabo    55 

James  ^5 

Lillian  ^^ 

Mary  55 

William 55 

LYMAN 

Hannah  P "H 


LYON 

Cora  A 80 

Edith   M 80 

Frank  E 80 

MACKINTOSH 

Roger  S 64 

MAHON 

Mabel   60 

MAJOR 

Catherine  58 

MATCHETT 

Dorothy  Rae 88 

James  C 88 

MASON 

Ida  E 50 

MATHER 

Cotton   (Rev.)   26 

MAY 

George  E.  , 46 

Harry   46 

Percy  F 46 

MARSHALL 

McBRIDE 

Clara  L 42 

Donald  H 42 

Ella   M 42 

Etta  M 42 

Flora  D 42 

John    42 

Lyman 42 

Martha  42 

N'ana  42 

Rollo 42 

McCAFFERY 

J.  J 56 

James  R 56 

McCARLEY 

Mannie  61 

McCROSKEY 

Mary  35 

McINTOSH 

Grace  A 78 


.McKEE 

Alice   35 

Charles 35 

Everett    35 

Irma  35 

W.  M 35 

.McKENZIE 

Emily  C 86 

McLEAR 

Alden  J 55 

Alton  B 55 

Avery  55 

Avis  55 

Clara  55 

Erva  M 55 

Emma  55 

George 55 

Hazel    55 

Iva  R 55 

Joseph   55 

Lloyd  55 

Lottie  55 

Margaret  55 

Mary  B 55 

Melville    55 

Orville  55 

Pearle    55 

Roselle  55 

Sarah  55 

Seaman    55 

Veta 55 

Victor  55 

Vincent  55 

Walter  B 55 

Wilmer  55 

McWATTERS 

Ethel  75 

MEADOW 

Margaret  Ann 35 

.MEGINER 

Bertie    83 

.MKDBURG 

Emma   44 

MERENE 

O.-icar    37 


MELLIN 

Reynold  F 37 

Sarah  37 

MERRIAM 

Hattie  44 

MERRIN 

Florence    45 

Frederick    45 

Gertrude     45 

Henry    45 

Thomas     45 

MILLIKEN 

Blanche  58 

Fay  J 58 

Harlinson    58 

Hazel    58 

John  R 58 

Marv  C 58 

William  J.  - 58 

Willis   58 

MIDDLETON 

Sarah  A 63 

MINER 

Lillian     71 

Nora   71 

MORGAN 

Ada  L 50 

Ada  R 50 

Allen  S 50 

Brenice   Elsie   50 

Edith 50 

Florence    50 

Fr?ncis    E 50 

Harold    50 

Harriett    50 

Ira  E 50 

Lucy    50 

William  B 50 

MOORE 

Jennie   47 

MOTLEY 

John    97 

Thomas     97 


MULLIN 

Beula  A 54 

Daniel     54 

Donald    54 

Grace     54 

James    54 

John    54 

Leo    54 

Maggie   54 

Marv    54 

Nellie    54 

William    54 

Willis    54 

MURRAY 

Lillian  M 87 

NANCE 

Henrietta  S 63 

NELSON 

Albert  E 68 

Darwin  F 68 

Dawson     68 

Earnest  W 68 

Frederick  M 68 

George   M 68 

Jennie    55 

Robin   H 68 

Roy  L 68 

NEWCOMB 

Alice   66 

Clarence    66 

Dorothy    66 

Madge    66 

Olive     66 

NEWLAND 

Ennis  N 61 

Jane    82 

John  L 61 

Tom    61 

William  T 61 

NEWTON 

Carrie   50 

Clara  A 51 

Jerome    -51 

John  H 51 


NICHOL 

Ruth  A 79 

William  W 79 

NILES 

Elliott  56 

Hannah     46 

Mabel  ....46 

Marian 46 

Orsemas  G 46 

Weltha   46 

NODURFT 

George  A 58 

George  L 58 

Gerta  Francis  58 

Loesa  E 58 

Maria  Alice  58 

NOLAN 

Annie    49 

Bernard     49 

Emma  49 

Irene   49 

James    49 

John    49 

Joseph  49 

Mary 49 

Romaine    49 

Walter    49 

O'BRIEN 

George  F 49 

Genevieva  49 

Margaret    49 

OLIN 

Bertha  47 

Isadore    47 

Josiah    : 47 

Theodore    47 

OLMSTEAD 

Martha  51 

Ned  51 

ON  KILL 

J.   M.    (Dr.)    56 

ORCU'in' 

John 28 


OREILY 

Maiy    78 

ORMISTON 

Nina  E 53 

OSBORNE 

Sara     36 

OZARD 

Edwin  41 

Jennie   41 

Robert  C 41 

PAIGE 

Edward  26,  96 

PAYNE 

William    26 

PALMER 

Amanda     49 

Henry    36 

PATRICK 

Eugenia    64 

PARKS 

Clara  B 90 

PEARL 

Emily    40 

James  C 40 

PEARSON 

Bert.  H 65 

PELLETT 

Frank    88 

Martha  D 82 

PERRY 

Bessie    55 

Everett    46 

Maggie   37 

Philip    : 46 

Wallace    46 

PE7TR 

Mary  J 83 

PETRIE 

Alton  D 56 

Frederick  J 56 

Harold  J 56 

Hilda    56 


PETERSON 

Annie    t'' 

PHELPS 

Bessie  M 84 

PHILLIPS 

Abiram    31 

William  H 49 

PLASS 

Hannah  54 

PLUMMER 

Sylvanus   26 

POTTS 

Harriett    80 

Martha  N 80 

PRICE 

Phebe    -^T 

PUTNAM 

Lydia    +7 

Stephen    64 

PYLE 

Bengie  H 37 

C.  F 37 

Marguerite  K 37 

Roger    37 

RALSTON 

Robert     ^^ 

RALPH 

James    36 

Thomas    36 

RAMNEY 

Esther   40 

Thomas 40 

RECTOR 

Harriett    76 

REMINGTON  N 

Annette     77 

John    77 

Rae    77 

Ward    77 

REXFORD 

Marv    55 


RICE 

Mary    48 

RITCHER 

Albert  J 54 

Charles  E 54 

Edmund    34 

George  F 54 

Katherine    54 

ROBERTS 

Beatrice  L 75 

William    30 

ROGERS 

Ichabod  26 

ROLFE 

Apphia  26,  97 

Benjamin  26,  97 

Eliza  97 

Henry   26 

Samuel    97 

ROOD 

H   Marian    75 

Rozetta    H 72 

ROSE 

Luna  E 60 

Sophia  -51 

ROSENBACHER 

Lillian     55 

ROWLAND 

Burt    55 

Corleen  55 

Eva   55 

Gweneth     5j 

Irene   ^5 

Letha    - 55 

Rutha   55 

RULIFSON 

Genevieve   L 52 

Grant  F 52 

SAUNDERS 

Earl  60 

Frances  A 61 

Herbert  ^0 

Merl     60 


Pearl    60 

Rollo  R :61 

SAYLES 

Charles  N 51 

Frank    51 

Mary     51 

Nathan    51 

SARGENT 

Naomi  '. ?■'■ 

SANFORD 

Hulett     34 

SANDS 

James    27 

SCHUMAN 

Catherine    45 

SCOTT 

Martha  47 

SEARS 

Phebe    41 

Seth     41 

SEMPLES 

Fann\-    80 

SEWALL 

Samuel  26,  % 

SHAW 

Lucy  Jane    66 

Josiah    66 

SHEA 

Elizabeth    41 

SHELDON 

Bell   47 

Clifford  47 

Cora    47 

Fred  0 47 

Leon  W  47 

William   H 47 

SHERPY 

Lydia    76 

SHINDLER 

Lottie  F 56 

Marv    55 


SIMMONS 

Tacie     55 

SLMONS 

Albert   L 56 

Albert  M 56 

D.  D 56 

Lester    56 

Liela   56 

SIMPSON 

Charles    54 

Helen    54 

SLACK 

W.  B 56 

SMITH 

Alphonso  B 66 

Bertha    46 

Caroline    44 

Chaunoey    51 

Dexter    32 

Emma   47 

Florence  M 63 

Foster  J 66 

Granville  W 66 

Horace    32 

Joseph   66 

Marv    66 

Milan  F 66 

Nelson    59 

Thomas  A 59 

SNOW 

Elizabeth    49 

Katie  46 

Monroe  H 80 

SOPHIA 

Otis     55 

Mvrtle    55 

William    55 

SOUTHER 

Elizabeth    29 

Joseph     29 

SPAIN 

Myrtle    62 

SPOFFORD 

Florence    74 


SPRAGUE 

Alyce  47 

Bryon    47 

David    47 

Dorr  L 47 

Elmer  D 47 

Farnum     47 

Francis    ...46 

Harriett    47 

Helen    47 

Hoyt   47 

Ida  E 47 

Jonathan  47 

Lucinda    47 

Manning  47 

Nemiah  46,  47 

Wesley    47 

STARK 

Anna  E 68 

STARKEY 

Charles   71 

STEBBINS 

Adelbert    48 

Albert   48 

Allen 48 

Gerald  B ...48 

Lena  B 48 

Leland  W 48 

Maxwell 48 

Melbourne    48 

Runette  48 

STEVENS 

Ella  74 

Nellie    74 

Philander    49 

STEVENSON 

Hattie     45 

STILES 

Andrew  M 79 

Helen  A 79 

William   A ..79 

STONE 

Cyrus    46 

Grace  E 92 

Joseph ..92 


STOREY 

Chas.  A 44 

STREETER 

Fannie     44 

STRINGER 

Elizabeth     62 

George    ...62 

Herbert  62 

Louise   62 

Walter    62 

ST.  PETERS 

Mary     55 

SUMMER 

Margaret    27 

Mary     47 

Sarah  47 

SULLIVAN 

Man,'    49 

SWAN 

Ysabel   L 92 

SWEET 

Arthur    45 

Calonen     45 

Chauncy    45 

Eugene    45 

Ella "";;;45 

Fokm    45 

John    45 

Juan    45 

Dally  A 72 

TALBOTT 

Elizabeth    27 

TAYLOR 

E.   Duncan  60 

Mattie  M 74 

Tliomas  Elias  98 

THOMAS 

Augusta  P 38 

Anna  P 38 

Andrew  G 38 

Eddie    38 

Franklin  P 38 

George  W 38 

Harold  V 38 


Joseph  38 

Mary  E 38 

Robert     38 

Sarah  L 38 

THOMPSON 

Josie    65 

Olivx    46 

THORNTON 

Beula  53 

Frances  Evelyn  53 

Francis  E.   (M.  D.)   . ...53 
Marion    Lucille   53 

THORP 

Lydia    48 

THURSTON 

Cora    F 40 

Emilv    40 

John  E 40 

John  K 40 

John  T 40 

TOOKE 

Webster  E 70 

TRACEY 

Alice  A 41 

Angeline  J 41 

Chas.  E 41 

Chas.  W 41 

Clark  C 41 

Frances  E 41 

Janette  A.    41 

Lester  E 41 

ALirv  J 41 

Ruie  M 41 

TUCKER 

Arthur   M 45 

Cliff    71 

Eugene  H 45 

George  J 45 

Grace  G 45 

Lewis  A 45 

Millard  S 45 

VAN  ALSTYNE 

Lucinda  48 

WILLARD 

.\Liv  Belle   91 


WALKER 

Esther  38 

Harris     64 

Isaac    29 

WALSH 

Herbert  J 78 

Harold  i 72 

James  A 78 

James  J 78 

M.  Hazel  78 

WARE 

Dudley    48 

Herman     46 

Kenneth     46 

M\rtle     46 

WARD 

Ellen    76 

WARNER 

Clifford  L 73 

Eliza  G 73 

Judson    ...73 

Maxwell  D 73 

WATERMAN 

Murray  SI 

WEBB 

Charlotte  E 75 

WEBSTER 

Benjamin     99 

Charlotte  F 75 

Donald    A 75 

George  P 75 

Hannah    31,  QQ 

Katherine  A 75 

MoUie     31 

Paul  A 75 

Pillsburv  A 75 

Paul    75 

Russell  A 75 

WE ETON 

Andrew  E 73 

Audrey    73 

George  M 73 

Gerald  F 75 

Llovd    75 


WEIMER 

William  M 80 

WEYHER 

Julius    42 

WHITE 

Amos  A 57 

Annie  J 63 

Burdell  J.  .-.: 80 

Eva    L 63 

George  A 63 

Ileene  M 63 

John    % 

John  D 63 

Joseph  W 63 

Lillian   M 63 

Lucy  J 63 

Marie  A 63 

Mary  E 62 

Penegrin    96 

Stella     57 

Stephen  B 63 

William  W 63 

WHITING 

Ada  Sophia    90 

WHITNEY 

Freeman    7 1 

F.  L 71 

Lorenz 71 

Luella  71 

WILEY 

Cinatus    47 

Henry   58 

Kittie     58 

Sarah  Ann   58 

WILLIAMSON 

George 61 

Karl  E.  .'. 81 

WILLIAMS 

Nettie    61 


WILLISTON 

Irene  64 

WILLET 

Warren  B 67 

WILSON 

Caty     57 

Florence  E 51 

Gorham    51 

WISWELL 

Etta  Louise  57 

Maria   57 

William    .- 57 

WITHINGTON 

S.  B 44 

WITT 

Elinor   C 62 

Irene   62 

Lewis    62 

Neely    62 

Robert  L 62 

WORK 

Alice  R 37 

John  F 37 

Zacharia  T 37 

WORTHINGTON 

Alice    35 

Charles    ...35 

John   B 35 

Inez  35 

Lucinda  F 35 

^^largaret    35 

W\GORST 

May  L 87 

YOUNG 

Aleda    56 

Frank    56 

Lannette   56 

Lawrence    56 


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